Michael J. Mahon wrote:
big_d_316@yahoo.com wrote:This isn't meant to be a troll message. I am just curious who's 5.25 drive could be faster when powered up. So far my bet is on a Commodore 1541 with Dolphin dos.So post some numbers for the operations you're interested in, so that people can do meaningful comparisons. -michael New Applesoft BASIC interface for NadaNet networking! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
This might be an old thread by now... but I thought I'd pitch in:Locksmith 5.0/6.0 Fast Copy, Apple II+ with Saturn 128K card.. Copy 140K disk in under 30 seconds.
This trick was done by reading sectors off the track as they came in... their decoding routines must have been rather clever and fast. Writing was done without formatting first, the entire track at once as far as I could tell.
-- Michael G.