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   Harry Potter to Anssi Saari   
   Re: C64/1541 copy: have disk, need file!   
   06 Mar 17 08:05:11   
   
   From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 7:16:31 AM UTC-5, Anssi Saari wrote:   
   > How do those special programs work, other than flipping disks multiple   
   > times? I remember early on in the 80s there was this file copy program   
   > called copy57.5K or something like that. Presumably it was able to do   
   > 57.5 kB at a time but how?   
      
   I presume it uses the memory behind the ROMs and I/O to store the information.   
      
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