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Disk Drive Speed; was: RE: One big mistake timex made...

2 messages · 2008-01-08 → 2008-01-08 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org

Participants: Adam Trionfo, Timex

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1. Disk Drive Speed; was: RE: One big mistake timex made...

Adam Trionfo · Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:33:

Glen Goodwin, on Tue 1/08/08 at 1:28 PM, wrote:
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[The wait time for the TS 2068 disk drive was] about 3-5 seconds using an Oliger drive i/f.
>>

You could load or write all 48K of the TS 2068 in that amount of time?  That seems ultra-fast.

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2. Re: [ts2068] Disk Drive Speed; was: RE: One big mistake timex made...

Timex · Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:26:

Maximum available RAM on a 2068 using BASIC was about 38K.
NEW
PRINT FREE
it gives total free RAM.

Timex FDD was fast too. No more than 10 seconds to read a "heavy" game.
Timex and Spectrum tape speed was 2400 bps.

Je

On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Adam Trionfo wrote:

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> Glen Goodwin, on Tue 1/08/08 at 1:28 PM, wrote:
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> [The wait time for the TS 2068 disk drive was] about 3-5 seconds  
> using an Oliger drive i/f.
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> You could load or write all 48K of the TS 2068 in that amount of  
> time?  That seems ultra-fast.
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> Adam
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