Hi there folks!
I recently bought 2 Sony HB-F700D MSX2 machines. They seemed to be
totally the same, but after trying them, one of the machines seems to
have a diskdrive which is really very much slower than the drive in the
other machine. After a while I found out that the fast drive-machine has
Disk Basic version 1.2 and the slow one 1.0. But I think there's been no
'surgery' on these machines to replace the diskROM, and the machine with
1.2 has a lower serial-number than the 1.0-one! Isn't that strange? By
the way, the fast one is almost 10 times faster than the slow one! I
checked out this:
10 TIME=0
20 BLOAD"FILE.BIN": REM 16K of binary
30 PRINT TIME/50 : REM 60 for NTSC mode
Can other people please check this on their MSX too? I'm wondering...
(IF this is a valid way to measure the disk-speed ofcourse!)
The fast SOny-drive gave: 0.24
The slow one gave: 2.3!
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Grtjs, Manuel
PS: MSX 4 EVER!
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