TL;DR: Today I’ve released a C64 tool: CBM Disk Transfer Benchmark.
Please don’t make any more YouTube videos measuring load times with smartphone stopwatch apps. Thanks!
Read below for my ruminations.
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The 1541 disk drive that my family got along with a Commodore 64 and 1702A monitor was slow. Really slow. The slow speed of the 1541 disk drive is legendary. I won’t go into the whole backstory from Commodore, but what it meant in my house was that most of the games we had on disk took a very long time to load.