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- From: Rug-rat@cris.com (Thomas Pinto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: NEWS: Bull Electrical..
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:40:44 GMT
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- bob masse (kh6zv9@victoria.pe.net) wrote:
- : : >I used to have a little wafer drive. It was about as fast as a stock
- : : >1541. I threw mine in the trash.
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- : : As fast as a stock 1541 ? Kiss my a#s ! It was at least four
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- : Kiss mine first, Idiot.
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- : The wafer drive I had was vintage, from the eighties. It was cute but
- : worthless in my opinion. It had it's own dos and if you scratched a file
- : from the directory, then that space was useless on the wafer unless you
- : re-formatted the whole thing.
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- : The biggest wafer size was around 170000 bytes of storage.
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- : It would not work if you had your jiffy-dos on.
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- : I would suggest that if someone wants a good back-up drive for their
- : system to get a real drive to do the work. The wafer drive just won't
- : cut it.
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- : I guess if you are used to using a datasette then the waferdrive would be
- : considered hi-speed.
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- Yup...and this is why I bought the FD-4000.
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- hehe...
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