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The original Macintosh ROM does some floppy drive calibration routines on startup to measure jitter in the spin rate. A common source of errors when writing a Macintosh emulator is emulating a "perfect" floppy drive. If the spin rate jitter is zero, the ROM attempts to a divide by zero and crashes.


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