High speed downloads on the Commodore 64 and 128 using period-correct hardware and software. Turbo232, REU RamDisk, bottlenecks, and benchmarks.

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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Modems, the C= Userport, and RS232 speed
02:26 Turbo232 and the MOS 6551 UART
03:36 Test Setup
04:54 Bottleneck
06:12 REU and Xpander3
07:20 Configuring StrikeTerm
08:23 C64 REU Benchmarks
10:38 Configuring DesTerm128
12:04 C128 REU Benchmarks
13:51 Final Results and Conclusion

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