12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
7:48 p.m.
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:38, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 9/12/07, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at
verizon.net> wrote:
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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On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:31, Ethan Dicks
wrote:
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. On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at
torfree.net> wrote:
I was wondering if you'd want the ",1" in there or not myself. 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?