Re: D64 with IDE64 and a parallel connected 1541... record beaten!?

From: Bryan Pope (bpope_at_wordstock.com)
Date: 2005-11-23 00:33:10

> 
> 
> On 2005-11-22, at 20:29, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> 
> > silverdr wrote:
> >
> >> Now I believe I'll be able to meet the target but even if I remain at
> >> 21-22 seconds it will still be acceptable for me... as long as noone
> >> writes a faster one, that is ;-)
> >
> > I can understand the desire to be the best or fastest, but for  
> > practical
> > use, does it matter if it takes 20, 25 or 30 seconds to convert a  
> > floppy
> > to a disk image? I mean, we've been in this hobby for more than 20  
> > years
> > already, so another five or ten seconds here or there isn't  
> > crucial. Also,
> > I think the task to swap floppies might be a bigger bottleneck than  
> > the
> > execution time.

I think the answer to this is "just because you can"! :)  And, a little 
competition is always good....

Cheers,

Bryan


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