28 May
2010
28 May
'10
9:43 p.m.
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 9:07 PM -0700 5/28/10, Gene Buckle wrote:
There's a couple of folks that have hooked 1541 drives to their ZX-81
computers. Anything that will talk the IEC serial protocol can use the
drives.
g.
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On Fri, 28 May 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I thought this was the case, but just couldn't believe Commodore could have
done anything so logical. :-)
Can a C1541 or C1571 attached to a C64 read
floppies from other Commodore
computers such as the VIC-20 or C16? Since the floppy drive is basically
a computer attached to the C64 by a serial cable, I tend to think it can,
but I don't believe I've ever seen anything on this, and I know I've never
tried. I've never had a floppy drive attached to any of my VIC-20's, back
when it was my only computer, I only had a cassette drive.
Zane, the short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, because the brains
of the drive and the DOS are IN the drive itself, not the computer. :)
The only difficulty you might run into is trying to read a double sided
1571 disk in a single sided 1541.