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"textContent": "Recently Commodore History investigated just how Commodore 1541 disk drives format disks, and why it took them over a minute. It was also an explanation of just what it means to format a floppy disk. We linked that last week. Well, yesterday they posted a second video on matters involving formatting disks. (16½ minutes) This … Continue reading \"Formatting a C64 Disk In 15 Seconds\"",
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