Where does the software go? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Mar 1997

my undertanding is that these software-based solutions work only with the
newer 1571's.  the 1541 is hardware incompatible with normal PC floppys.
This issue and hardware solutions (e.g. cables for hooking the 1541 to a
PC) is all described nicely in the comp.sys.cbm news group and FAQ and more
detailed questions are best fielded there.

- glenn

At 09:08 AM 3/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
...
 "Mr. Self Destruct"
&lt;more(a)camlaw.rutgers.edu&gt; says:

 One good way that I have found [for FTPing off the
net]
is to use a program [for commodore computers] called Little
Red Reader.  Basically, you just download onto your PC
then copy to a PC floppy.  Little Red Reader is basically a 
shareware clone of Big Blue Reader.  It lets you copy from
PC fromat to CBM format and is actually pretty quick about
it!  Ive had no problems so far.  You can FTP it from the
usual C= sites [ftp.funet.fi etc.]  
Waitaminute.

Are you saying you can get a single-sided 1541 drive to read a PC-
formatted disk?  I'm impressed.

Do you need to do anything special (like, say, format the disk
single-sided)?
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