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From: cgwong@watmath.waterloo.edu (Clint Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: is it possible to read/write Commodore disks on an IBM PC?
Message-ID: <19371@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 88 15:40:25 GMT
References: <22a54e8a@ralf>
Reply-To: cgwong@watmath.waterloo.edu (Clint Wong)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <22a54e8a@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>Ah, but the Commodore 1541 (and presumably 1571) has RAM into which you can
>load your own programs, thus changing the behavior of the drive (like a
>five-fold speedup, playing games with the drive activity light*, etc.)
>
>* I once saw a drive testing program that programmed the drive to turn on
>the drive light whenever the write protect sensor detected a write-protect.
>
I think the ultimate is a program I have that plays a song on the disk
drive by creating a high pitch whine by programming the head to oscillate
against the head stop.
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