[CCTALK] Commodore 1541 Drive

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed May 15 20:36:37 2002

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> That being said, since the 1541 is an intelligent peripheral I suppose
> you could reprogram it to read Apple floppies, but this would require a
> lot of work and is certainly beyond my non-white-hat-consciousness.

I remember once sticking a Commodore 64 disk into an Apple drive and using
a low-level disk utility to read a track and the data did not seem to be
random, unintelligible data, but in fact seemed to have some order to it.

My recollection could be hazy and I could have just been seeing things way
back when.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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