Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mike Stein <*mhs.stein_at_gmail.com*> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: <F4BA49AFA52C40609351DAC0AD723B54@310e2> · mhs.stein_at_gmail.com

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From: "Mia Magnusson" <mia@plea.se>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

> ...As a comparison, the first Commodore product fast enough to display 80
cols with an 8-bit bus (and no wait state / "snow" problem) were the
CBM-II/B series and later the PET 8296, and those came out later than the initial IBM PC.

I thought the 8032 was the first, a year or so before the PC; no?