CBM Chip Question

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Wed Nov 20 23:18:00 2002

> > While rummaging thought my stock of Commodore chips, I came across a
> > bunck of R6765 chips. I looked in some of my notes and I have "floppy
> > controller" written down and elsewhere "D765". [...]
> > Which Commodore drives was this chip used in?
>
> Not necessarily in any -- Rockwell made chips for a heck of a lot more
> stuff than Commodore computers. If it was used in a Commodore drive,
> it would most likely have been the 1571 or 1581, since AFAIK those
> are the only drives they made that supported industry-standard MFM.

I don't *think* they're in those either -- the WD 1770/2 are in the '71 and
'81 (I'm not at my apartment right now, so I can't crack one open to check).

-- 
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
 Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 23:18:00 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:35:28 BST