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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Compatibility:  8000 series and C64
Message-ID: <960@usl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 00:37:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: usl.960
Posted: Sun Oct 12 00:37:14 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 00:25:53 EDT
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Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Organization: USL, Lafayette, La.
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Keywords: Sorry, incompatible.

The 8000 series is totally incompatible with the C-64, with the
exception that you can load Basic 2.0 programs into Basic 4.0... but
why bother?

You can hook 8000 series peripherals to the C-64 by adding a Pet port
(subset of IEEE-488) to the C-64. That is of note solely because it
allows you to use high-capacity disk drives with the C-64 (the 8050
and 8250, and SFD-1001). We CBM owners have simply been dying for high
capacity drives... whenever you see one of those used CBM drives on
the market, it's snapped up for as much as it sold for in the first
place! Interesting that nobody spotted this market (I mean, when
people are paying so much money for obsolete, cranky, breakdown prone
equipment, what would they pay for equivalent NEW equipment?). Except
for Jack Tramiel, but apparently his few engineers over at Atari are
having problems with their promise to introduce a hard drive for the
C-64 and Atari for under $600... sigh, it looks like this will be yet
ANOTHER market filled by someone besides Commodore...
-- 

      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

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