6 Oct
2007
6 Oct
'07
9:01 a.m.
Subject: Re: New DSDD 5.25" floppies?
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0200
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On 10/5/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Something similar to that would be appealing for my Epson PX-8.
Allison
And you all seem to have missed what I'm
referring to. :^) Note the
"III" portion of 1541-III. :^)
http://jderogee.tripod.com/project1541.htm
I've seen that before, and have often contemplated throwing one together.
I'm about ready to start collecting the parts
needed and to see about
getting at least a couple circuit boards made.
Would you mind sharing where you are getting Nokia 3310 phones (or the
Phillips PDC 8544 LCD display)?
BTW, I currently have 3-5 1541's, 1 1571, and
1 or 2 Excelerator+Plus
(minus power-supplies) drives. I tend to use a pair of the 1541's.
Though the 1571 is at home rather than lost up in storage. :^) I use
the 1541's as I don't have a spare 1571. I prefer to only use drives
if I have a spare.
I've never had a 1571 - I started with 1540 in 1982 (and wish I could
find it - I think it has my Spartan Apple-II interface mounted inside
it), then acquired a number of 1541s in my C-64 days, but never moved
over to the C-128, so froze there in time (except for the 1581 I have
that came from a defunct Commodore dealer - it works, but I haven't
put more than a couple floppies through it).
I _am_ interested in the 1541-III, but I'd *really* be interested in a
FLASH-storage-based 2031 - i.e., with an IEEE-488 interface. I still
do lots with PETs, and the .D64 support would solve one of the
problems I have with running old programs - Infocom used "random
files" (unstructured raw block access) for their Zmachine. The games
were very much floppy-based, with no obvious way to migrate them to a
hard disk or other non-floppy medium.
-ethan