[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

[Tony Cappellini]

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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:56:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II
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>>I have JiffyDOS in my C64 and 1541 Drive which speeds it up quite a bit.

The thing that bugs me about the 154x drives for the C64s is that they were
designed poorly- as a peripheral.

There is a lot of hardware in each drive- which you must pay for with each
one that you buy. This is absolutely unnecessary, as can be seen with the
Coco's simple controller, and plain floppy drives.

Even with all of that hardware & FW in the 154x drives, they were sinfully
slow, which led to the 3rd party add-ons to help speed them up.

I never touched the TI nor Atari system, so I have no idea what their
storage systems are like.