22 May
1998
22 May
'98
5:34 p.m.
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:
My understanding of Commode-Ore is that there is a
chip within the cassette
interface that allows the pooter to talk to the cassette drive. Of course
Commodore (like many others, Apple comes to mind) was very good at keeping
most of their stuff proprietry in some (even small) way to dissuade the owners
from buying aftermarket.
Well, if you're alluding to the Disk ][, this was not an effort by Apple
to be "non-standard", but was basically due to the brilliant hacks of
Steve Wozniak in adding an inexpensive and simple disk controller to the
Apple ][. And as far as aftermarket goes, I can't think of even one drive
that was made to work on any Commodore that wasn't manufactured by
Commodore, but I myself have at least five examples of disk drives made
for the Apple by random no name manufacturers.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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