Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
14 Sep 1998 19:53:49 +0200

In article <m0zIbdN-000aQwC@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>8bit micro people never got about about 3000bits/second off old cassette
>tape (MFM or FM encoded). Its just horrible stuff for distortion and
>stretching

Well my ZX81 did 4000 baud reliably. A 700 bytes big Z80 asm tape r/w routine,
stored in the original 1K memory that originally was turned off by
the 16K RAM extension but which I relocated with some 74xx chips.
Those were the days ;)

Mike.

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