Re: Apple II Disk Drive Question

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <dv0qit$30dl$1@merope.saaf.se>,
 pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

> In article 
> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603120227190.3126@static-141-149-129-16.buff.east.verizon.net>
> ,
> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Jack Tseng wrote:
> > 
> >> Is it faster than Commodore 1541 or Atari XF551???
> > 
> > ANYTHING is faster than a 1541. (I'm quite sure the disk ][ is)
>  
> Including Cassette Tape ???   <g>


Little do you realize... :) 

1541s were basically nothing more than a tape drive operating with a 
tape that was round instead of being a long ribbon on two reels. A Disk 
II getting multiple recoverable read errors on every sector it read 
would STILL run rings around a 1541, and not even break a sweat doing it.

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