One thing you could setup on the Commodore drives is file copying from on drive to another without it going thru the computer, they just talked to each other.

One thing you could setup on the Commodore drives is file copying from on drive to another without it going thru the computer, they just talked to each other. You could also do the same thing if you had a straight text file and sent it to the printer (I am not sure which printer models) with again not using the computer after the handshaking was set up.