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From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus Summary:
Keywords: Thank God it's impossible!
Message-ID: <890@mpirbn.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 17:16:54 GMT
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Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
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In article <14876@s.ms.uky.edu> sam@ms.uky.edu (Michael W. Mills) writes:
>Actually, you CAN write to a write protected disk on a C64 (and 1541
>disk drive)...you've got 1K (I think, its been a while) in which you
>can write a program that calls the write routine (which is in ROM)
>after it checks for the write protect switch.

Must be an other 1541 than mine.
There is a small path where the signal from the phototransistor that senses
the write-protect tab to the write amplifiers that drive the read/write head.
It efficiently shuts up any writing.

-- 
Michael van Elst
p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de