On 27-Apr-97, classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu wrote:
>Can the Plus/4 run C64 software?
>In the user's manual there is a picture of a 1541 disk drive which looked
>black. It was a black and white picture, but the 1541s that I have seen
>all match the color scheme of the C64. Has anyone seen a black 1541?
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Plus/4 (like the C-16) was
intended as an upgrade, and total break, from the C-64 and is incompatible in
both hardware and software to the C-64. I've seen it said that this was one
of the main reasons the machine never caught on. As for the color scheme of
the 1541 though, the later 1541's were the ones that matched the brown color
of the C-64. The earlier 1541's, labled VIC-1541, matched the lighter color
of the VIC-20. It is the VIC-1541 that I have in my collection.
Jeff jeffh_at_eleventh.com
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Received on Sat Apr 26 1997 - 12:07:02 BST