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From: grwalter@watmath.UUCP (Fred Walter)
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Subject: Re: Using CP/M on the Commodore 128
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Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 09:15:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 22 09:15:37 1986
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In article <2459@rayssd.UUCP> jds@rayssd.UUCP (Jeffrey D. Struven) writes:
>
>   My brother recently bought a Commodore 128.  He messing around with
>CP/M and is having a little trouble with it.  It seems that there was a
>CP/M disk included with his computer.  It has a bunch of useful programs
>on it.  Some on side 1 and the rest on side 2, every time he wants to
>change the date or use the functions that are not on the boot side of the
>disk he has to flip the disk.  This doesn't make any sense to me because
>I understood that the 1571 disk drive has to heads.  Shouldn't the disk
>drive be able to access both sides of the disk without having to flip
>the disk.  I am not too familiar with the C-128 so any information on
>this dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
>
>				    Thanks,
>                                 Jeff Struven

The disk was organized like that so that people without a 1571, but who had
a 1541, could use CP/M. The first thing I did when I started to play around
with CP/M was to copy both sides of the disk onto one 1571 CP/M format
disk. (I think they even tell you how to do this in the User's Guide that
you get with the C128).

					fred