OT: Australian computer "collectors" :)

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Fri Sep 5 14:52:00 2003

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > who stole two mainframe computers from the Australian Customs at the
> > > Sydney Airport.
> > Whoops! Sorry, my bad. I thought it was a Commodore 64. No wonder I
> > couldn't figure out how to connect up the 1541 drive.
>
> That might, indeed be difficult, unless you build a custom interface.
>
> But can you get an IEEE-488 (lab instrument, et.) interface?
> The MSD drive for the Commode can connect to that.
>
> Or,...
> could you do terminal emulation with a PC, and connect the 1541 to the
> parallel port?
>

Naw, grab an XA1541 cable and a copy of 64HDD. You can turn your old 386
into a .D64 disk server for your C-64. :)

g.
Received on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 14:52:00 BST