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> To enable the motor, pull this pin LOW and then wait 500ms. No wonder floppies were sooo daaarn sloooooow.
by gwbas1c 3y ago
> To enable the motor, pull this pin LOW and then wait 500ms.
No wonder floppies were sooo daaarn sloooooow.
- mras0 3y agoOnce the drive is spinning that doesn't matter though. Floppies are slow by modern standards mostly because you only get a new (decoded) bit around every 2nd (or for DD drives 4th) microsecond, and the drive takes some time stepping to the next cylinder (track).
- snvzz 3y agoThey felt so fast (Amiga). Relative to the datasette (C64) I was used to.