3 Sep
2006
3 Sep
'06
5:17 p.m.
Subject: Re: Commodore hacking and hardware tricks (was Re: commodore 64/128question)
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:32:51 -0700
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
At 12:55 PM -0700 9/3/06, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>On 9/3/2006 at 8:42 PM Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
>>Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>> What's a good substitute drive mechanism for the 1541/71? The drives
>>that
>>> come as factory original are pretty chintzy.
Funny, I was just looking at the 1571 and it's a Newtronics/Mitsumi 48TPI
two sided unit. The 1541 is from what I read a different beast.
I'm not sure you'd be able to swap it out -
isn't the head preamp on the
1541
motherboard, not a separate drive interface board?
Indeed it is. I hoped that perhaps generations of C128 hackers had found a
way around this by now. Silly me.