Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 6551 interfacing
Message-ID: <7085@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 04:00:37 GMT
References: <2483.24875872@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <2483.24875872@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>, izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh) says:

>    My comments about the 1700 & 1750 working on the C64 may have been flippant 
> and rather presumptuous about the interchangeability of accessories for the 
> C128, but now that you mention it, I do know an appropriate application of 
> your rule that things released commercially better work reliably: the C64 
> power supply. ...

Point taken.  C64 power supplies were not a marvel of technology, even in their
time.  If nothing else, I should point out that all the folks responsible for
that device were long gone even by the time we made the C128 (and it's 
respective power supply).  I was around for the 128, and I wrote the spec for
the supply, at least to the point of how much juice it can crank out.  I hope
that was a little better.

I leave as an exercise to the reader the task of figuring out where the C64
people are today....

>    Geoff

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