Fwd: RE: 8250 LP Double disk drive for the commodore 64

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Jul 5 17:13:00 2003

--- Chandra Bajpai <cbajpai_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Can 8050 diskettes be read on the 8250 (can the 8250 sense single sided
> diskettes)? Which PET drive is compatible with 1571?

I'm not sure... that stuff is kinda new compared to what I have. When I
used PETs every day, I was using cassette tape. I got a 2040/4040 drive
about 8 years after my first C-64/1541.
 
> Ethan...I've accumulated a lot of PET stuff, including a dozen 8032's, a
> dead SuperPET, some drives (including an 8250) and 3-8K PETs. Love to
> hear what you have? I wish I had some software!

I have a couple of 2001N-32s (marketed in Europe as the 3032), several
8032s, several 2040s upgraded to 4040s (DOS 2 firmware), at least one
8050, a 2031 (looks like a 1541 with an IEEE-488 port), a couple of
hard disks (9060 and 9090), printers, and some wierd add-ons (IEEE-488
serial interfaces, a "port maker" 6551 plug-in, 64K expanded RAM boards,
the guts from a SuperPet as upgrade spares (NIB), a couple modern C2N232
interfaces (tape-interface to serial) and all the service docs.

I have a few disks of games and what-not I accumulated over the years,
much of it I spun off of original, commercial tapes. I also have
utilities, assemblers, etc., but I have tended of late to use VICE
under UNIX to do PET development (like to port Zork from the C-64 to the
PET). All in all, I probably have five or six floppies of PET stuff.

Currently, I'm stalled because my favorite environment is still BASIC 2.0,
not BASIC 4.0, and my older PET is flakey when it comes to disk access.
I've replaced the PIAs and VIAs; now I'm looking at replacing the leaf-
sockets with machined-pin sockets. After that, I don't know, unless
it's oxidation on the IEEE-488 edge connector.

-ethan
Received on Sat Jul 05 2003 - 17:13:00 BST