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From: Pase@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (Bill Pase)
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Subject: Floppy Disk Speed
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Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 15:45:00 EDT
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The September issue of Analog has an article called Format+.  It is a
Basic program which patches the ram verion of gem so that the disk
formater works differently.  Disks which are then formated and used with
the standard gem perform io at double the speed of the normal formatted
disk.  The transfer rate is near the theoritical maximum.  I haven't
actually tried it yet but will let you know what I find out.  /bill