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   From: ckaiser@floodgap.com   
      
   "Payton Byrd"  writes:   
      
   >Bob Russell himself explained at VCF East that the super-fast disk   
   >access that was planned for the 64 had to be scrapped because a Japanese   
   >industrial engineer removed his traces that he needed to make it work.   
      
   I remember that comment also. However, that wouldn't have changed anything   
   because even if the trace were there, there was still the issue of the bugs   
   in the drive's VIAs and so it would have still had the onus of compatibility.   
      
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