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From: goodenough@vogon.DEC (Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading DEC-UK)
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Subject: Tape vs. disk
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:34:40 EST
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> .... a tape is no good on it since it takes
> eternity and then some to load anything.

Agreed.  But it may interest you to know that the majority of C64's in
the U.K. (and there are a LOT - we have the highest saturation of home
computers in the world, I believe) are equipped with tape rather than
disk.  That's because prices are roughly double what they are in the U.S.,
where I believe virtually every C64 owner has a disk!

Because of the high usage of tape, there has been a lot of development of
turbo loaders (Novaload is the best known), and these loaders claim to be
at least as fast as a 1541.  I heard that a 1541 can take 3 minutes to
load an average program.  I've heard enough grumbles about the 1541 to
know that it's slow, but THAT SLOW??

Jeff.