New subject: 1541-III (was: New DSDD 5.25" floppies?)

6 Oct 2007

On 10/5/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
...
  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