On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 09:43:15AM -0400, Ian Garmaise wrote: > > I have seen alternate floppy interfaces for the C64 which loaded a LOT > > faster than the stock serial interface. The drives were capable of much > > more than the serial interface they used. > > When I was at Logo Computer Systems in Montreal, > we modified the firmware (you could upload new code at boot) of the floppy > drive > to permit our application (Logo for C-64) to load much faster than it > normally would (still using the same serial interface). > > Law of unintended consequences: it turned out that lots of schools > would actually share a floppy drive (they > were expensive) between multiple C-64's using some kind of cockamamie > network. Needless to say > our hack didn't work with it. I was the contact person for the > schools and I heard about it frequently. > Killed the product.
Yes my highschool had such a setup. If you knew the right commands you could load the same program on all the machines in parallel which saved time. Also allowed sharing one printer of course. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
