27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
10:11 p.m.
I just started to watch the TVO episode and had a good laugh of the tape loading the software
Hey, don't knock 'em. They were cheap and pretty reliable. For some reason (import tariffs? lower disposable income?) floppy drives were pretty rare in the UK. They were still faster than a Commodore 64 disk drive, though.
Of the C64 floppy disk drive it was said 'Loads programs faster than you can type them in...but only just.' Apparently there was some sort of handshaking bug that prevented the drive from running at full speed, and so they crippled it with a delay loop somewhere. -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325