XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
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   Cameron Kaiser  writes:   
      
   > "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.   
      
   It's also mentioned in "On the Edge".   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Would that matter? Presumably the 1541 wasn't done when the C64 came   
   out, so they could've fixed the drive before release. I don't think   
   1540 compatibility would've been that important?   
      
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