8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:38, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 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.

Actually I never did all that much with cassette on any c= stuff (though I do 
have one),  and never thought about there being two of them attached to one 
machine...

Too often I typed that ,1 in when executing a disk command,  and there were 
times when that wasn't wanted or necessary,  and didn't work like I expected.

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