[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

[Bill Loguidice]

While it's true that the C-64 had the slowest disk drive of its era, it was
still nice that it was direct connect and daisy chainable right out of the
box, i.e., it didn't require any additional hardware or software (DOS) to
work. While I had a C-64 and then C-64c growing up, my preferred C-64
system in my collection these days is a C-128DCR with JiffyDOS. One of the
advantages of the C-64 being so popular is that you had a nice choice of
form factors, including the SX-64. The other nice thing was that Commodore
got the C-64's spec's just right out of the box, so it really wasn't
necessary to improve upon it with subsequent hardware (though they
eventually tried with the unreleased C-65) to maintain interest.

Again, each major 8-bit had something of interest, and, as long as there
was a minimum power threshold that was met, it could continue to provide
incredible amounts of enjoyment regardless of what you were interested in
doing with it.

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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:56:19 -0500
> From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 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.
>
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