[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sat Jan 10 19:04:52 EST 2015


> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:39 AM, didier derny <didier at aida.org> wrote:
> 
> You know in 1980 with a commodore 8000 with a disk unit 8050 you had all you need for many activities

I do recall the Commodore disk drive was a serial device slower than the CoCO cassette port or something like that. My advanced C64 friends had some kind of plug in cartridge to accelerate it, but others did not. I remember seeing this on a C64 game once:

PLEASE WAIT 3.5 MINUTES WHILE THE GAME LOADS

How far we have come :)

		-- A



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