On Fri, 22 May 1998, Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:
> My understanding of Commode-Ore is that there is a chip within the cassette
> interface that allows the pooter to talk to the cassette drive. Of course
> Commodore (like many others, Apple comes to mind) was very good at keeping
> most of their stuff proprietry in some (even small) way to dissuade the owners
> from buying aftermarket.
Well, if you're alluding to the Disk ][, this was not an effort by Apple
to be "non-standard", but was basically due to the brilliant hacks of
Steve Wozniak in adding an inexpensive and simple disk controller to the
Apple ][. And as far as aftermarket goes, I can't think of even one drive
that was made to work on any Commodore that wasn't manufactured by
Commodore, but I myself have at least five examples of disk drives made
for the Apple by random no name manufacturers.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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