#Use PC Tape systems
24-Jul-94 12:48:28
Sb: #157348-#Use PC Tape systems
Fm: Robert Comer 72446,656
To: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
> As far as I know, the Amiga CIA ports (serial, floppy, parallel) can't
>match the speed of current IBM-compatible parallel ports. I think this
>has been the case since the IBM-AT. The Amiga parallel and floppy ports
>max out at 50K/sec, probably too slow for most tape drives.
Your right about the parallel. (That's primarily why I said the same
thing.) As to the floppy port, I don't know. I haven't looked up the
xfer speed of these things. Your probably right though.
btw, for serial, only the boards that have a FIFO SIO chip can beat the
Amiga. (Not widespread until recently, most PC's don't have them yet.)
(Just talking from personal experience here, not specs.)
> I think your only hope would be to go trough a more modern parallel port
>adapter, like a GVP IOextender.
That's not an option either, no slots. 🙂
Bob Comer — Hakuna Matata!
Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A.