For what it's worth, there's an easy way to double the performance of a tape drive and that's to write once. By default, everything is saved twice to ensure the integrity of the data. If you write once, you double the speed. :) There was a program called Supertape by a hacker named Elgar that ...

How does a normal dtatsette transfre this data? Doesn't it just feed the audio into the C=? Not exactly. It works in much the same way as a modem. I really don't see why you would want to bother anyway as a tape drive costs less than the cost of lunch at McDonalds. I would advise that you spare ...

Update: I found Mr. Schnedler over a week ago and he's doing fine. I was right, he is an attorney. That's actually his real occupation. I told him I contacted him before, way back in early 1990 on CIN (I'm sure he doesn't remember). I also gave him my opinion that his TurboMasterCPU probably partly ...

That Schnedler 4mhz CPU is a very sought-after item these days. Why is that, is it really that rare? I'm not sure what happened to Schnedler Systems. They also sold some C64-compatible data acquisition devices. I think they changed name to Spheretron, but that business died too. If I'm not mistaken ...

Ok, no biggie. It's not like I've been searching all these years after the FSD2 broke, but I still have it, in my garage, with the top taken off, dust settling on it for years. It's death might have had something to do with one of its ROM chips underneath, dunno. Yeah, I bought the TMCPU around 1990 ...

Well, actually it's been ~15 years since my FSD-2 Excelerator disk drive suddenly stopped functioning. I think the light was still running, if I recall. Anyway, does anyone know where I can obtain schematics and such? I still have all the parts lying around, including the manual, afaik. I'm just ...