fun fact: the commodore 1541 disk drive, the floppy drive sold for use with the C64, actually contains most of the same circuitry as a C64, including the CPU
despite being nearly as powerful a computer as the C64 it was communicating with, it was still incredibly slow even by the standards of the time
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@Felthry Hey you could make it 7% faster by turning off the C64's video display.
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It was kind of a ridiculous era for computing.
@Austin_Dern wasn't it something about maintaining compatibility with the vic20 or something, that made the drive so slow? I know we've seen stuff about mods to make it actually work at reasonable speed
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@Austin_Dern where "reasonable speed" is something like 20-30 times the speed it normally runs at
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@Felthry As one who lived through it ... it was this great mix of wonderful stuff and frustrating stuff. Like, read a Compute!'s Gazette and you see all these things you can do, or try to do, with your computer ... but it's also all kind of ... slow and so much harder than it needed to be, especially C64 sound and graphics.
@Austin_Dern ...a commodore 64 would be a neat thing to get to play with sometime. that whole era of computing was before our time
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