8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Ethan Dicks]

On 9/12/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:31, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> wrote:
> > > From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > >Since I couldn't afford an IEEE-488 disk drive... I fabricated my own
> > > >nybble-with-handshake cable between the user ports of the PET and the
> > > >C-64...
> > >
> > > You mean you didn't just make a simple cassette "null modem" cable?
>
> > Just a passive cable?  Do you have any special notes, or was it just
> > SAVE "FOO", 1  and LOAD "FOO", 1?
>
> I was wondering if you'd want the ",1" in there or not myself.

In this case, the '1' is to designate cassette drive 1 (PETs have two,
C-64s have one).  It's probably optional, but I included it out of
habit.

-ethan