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   Anssi Saari to Harry Potter   
   Re: C64/1541 copy: have disk, need file!   
   06 Mar 17 22:22:29   
   
   From: as@sci.fi   
      
   Harry Potter  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Well sure but how do you do that?   
      
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