10 Feb
2006
10 Feb
'06
5:44 p.m.
There are people using some of the cheap Commodore
drives with PC parallel
ports. (is that using the IEC port of the drive? is it still called
IEC?)
Yes, that's the official name, though to make it more confusing, most
Commodore geeks call it just "the serial bus."
Unfortunately, I don't know of an IEC-based drive that can read an 8050
disk, let alone an 8250 one. The 1541/1571 *can* read 4040 format (from the
4040 and the 2031), but you should never write to one because of the
slight differences in write gap in the respective GCR headers the drives
lay down.
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