Roy J. Tellason -> Tom Walker >>ram parts<< {at} 11 Dec 02  04:08:32

 TW>> There was quite a nice assortment of Aftermarket devices. I had a
 TW>> Disk Drive that was supposedly twice as fast as the Commodore
 TW>> drive..

  What connection did it have to the computer?

 RJT> Considering the normal operating speed of the 1541,  that's not all that
 RJT> hard to do!  :-)

  The funny thing is that the drive is way faster than the standard serial
communication. Fast loaders exploited that both the computer and the drive
had CPUs with the same speed, and only synchronized once for every byte,
plus used both the data and the clock signal for data transfer.

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