On 13 Jun 99 at 0:00, Tibor Mocsar wrote:
>>AFAIR it was partly hacked and partly selfinvented: the german
>>programmer didn't get any reply from Geoworks and he had to rewrite
>>significal parts of the system. GEOS for +4 doesn't work with the
>>Commodore 1541 drive, it works only with 1551 which is about five times
>>faster. Unfortunately, in order to work with GEOS really fluently, you
>>_must_ have two 1551 drives. I made my first teleprocessing and Internet
>>experiences whith this machine and still use it occassionally for
>>homebanking.
Very interesting. I have never seen a 1551 drive myself, only a picture or 2
as well as some info about it's features and such. If it really was 5X faster
than 1541, then the 1551 would give a RAMDISK a pretty good run for the
money. I ran my Geos on a RAMDISK in the C= 1750 RAM Expander.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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