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  6. From: elemar@hyperion.dorm.umd.edu (Eric Lemar)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
  8. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
  9. Date: 25 May 1996 06:28:58 GMT
  10. Organization: University of Maryland College Park
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  22. Beat Kuert (alcastellosa@access.ch) wrote:
  23. : While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
  24. : speed drives, are you sure about that?
  25. :
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  27. Yep.  very sure.  got 3 amigas in the house with me right here, used
  28. it all the way from kickstarts 1.1 (and for a very brief while) 1.0.
  29. there were hardware addons for the mac emulators that would pulse
  30. the drive motor to simulate variable speed though... have no idea
  31. how well they worked.
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  33. eric
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