[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 04:22 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote:
>>>Since I compiled the rzsz you are, or have played with, I can't argue
>>> that its architecturally wrong, it is, and that means you are limited to
>>> a hair over 700 cps on a 6309 machine, and the middle 500's on a 6809
>>> machine. It is, in the face of poor line quality, absolutely bulletproof
>>> though.  It just keeps on hammering until the checksums do match.  The
>>> problem is that it builds the checksum one &^% char at a time, so that
>>> whole loop has to execute for every incoming byte.  Grrr.
>>
>>Exactly.  Always build from a stable program to a faster program,
>>with stability coming first.
>
>Duh.  I repeated myself there, didn't I.
>
NP Roger. :)

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