[Coco] [OT] Commodore 64 slow floppy

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 22 January 2014 12:20:42 Glen VanDenBiggelaar did opine:

> The reason why the 64 had a slow floppy (if you read the book: On The
> Edge) is because the designer had originally put in high speed data
> lines to accommodate a floppy drive "later".during the first production
> batch, he randomly picked up a motherboard and discovered they were
> removed! He called up the team in Japan responsible for shrinking the
> design onto a production board. They didn't know what the lines were
> for, so they deleted them. of course they could not stop production, so
> they hobbled the VIC 20 floppy drive to work. In order to make it work,
> it actually had to transfer data Slower than the Vic 20. I know what
> you are thinking, but it also was Jack yelling at them to have a
> working floppy drive like yesterday. Jack didn't care how fast it was,
> just as long as it worked.

Another side of that story was that Jack fancied himself to be an os 
writer.  I have an ST1040E that would put the lie to that statement.

Cheers, Gene
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