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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Has anyone connected harddiske to a c64?
Summary: its sad about that Gandhi thing
Keywords: my father likes pizza
Message-ID: <1991May22.180032.10001@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 22 May 91 18:00:32 GMT
Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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I would like to hear about setting harddisks up
with a c64. Is it possible, has anybody done it,
can it be done "nicely" ( things like - this 16
character limit on file names, is that in the
c64 or in the 1541, it is implemented? So could
the harddisk thing be kept outside the computer,
so the necessary directory thing wouln't bother
the c64)
   I haven't read this newsgroup before(I did
not know it existed!), so sorry if this is
a stupid question.

As I understand it, the way disks works with the
c64 is very nice, because all the action is
handled by the 1541 and its 6510 and its 2k ram
and its 8k rom. So all the "r:xxx", "n:xxx"
"s:xxx" could be similar, and directories just
added on top of it.
   I know a lot of things would screw up -
things that adressed the disk as a physical device,
and assumed 36(?) sectors etc. But a lot of stuff
would act nicely, if one just changed directory
to where it lived, and then started it.

I know, that the 1541(when looked at from the software
point)is "quite" complicated, and stuff of similar
complexity(or worse) would be needed to do this,
so -

Has any company made anything like this?
--
From the notorious
                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!)  AMIGA!  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.