5 Mar
2011
5 Mar
'11
2:18 a.m.
>> Send one to Philip. But, don't tell him
what's special about the format
>> until he ferrets it out! :-)
When I first read that, I thought "How did Fred know I had a Sirius?" :-)
I haven't done anything with my Sirius for years, so I can't easily
justify buying more disks for it. But if you have no other takers, I
might try and scrape together the shipping. Where are you?
I can tell you the controller PCB schematic is almost
identical to the
relevant bits of the Commodore 8050 (not suprising, given the designer).
I have no idea if the contents of the encoder/decoder ROM are the same
though, and that you would need to know.
Interesting. The Sirius was famous in its day for the "wining tones" of
the variable speed disk drive, which the Commodore didn't have (in a
later post someone says that the Commodore drives changed the data rate
instead), so I'm surprised they're so similar.
Philip.