World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Dec 6 19:46:04 2000

Tony Duell skrev:

>Since the CBM serial bus protocol is documented somewhere (and there are
>plenty of hackers who've dug into the C64 and C128 ROMs), I don't think
>there's a good reason why the 1571 (and other CBM peripherals) can't be
>linked up to _any_ computer and the serial bus simulated by bit-banging
>on a TTL-level I/O port.

>In fact, isn't there a well-known program to at least read/write disks in
>1541 drives from an MS-DOS box?

There are loads of such utilities and cables, but they seldom work in a way
compatible to the host filesystem.

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Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 19:46:04 GMT

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