Re: 8520A / 1581

From: MagerValp (MagerValp_at_Goth.Org)
Date: 1998-09-02 10:39:23

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave R <watson@mcs.com> writes:


Ruud> Frank, what has happened with your ideas of transferring a 1581
Ruud> into a 1591 by replacing the 720 KB drive with an 1.44 MB one
Ruud> plus some other things???

Dave> I e-mailed the person who said they had done it, asking for a
Dave> dump of the 1591 ROM and a description of the changes, and he
Dave> replied that he had sold the drive a few years back with no
Dave> recollection of the buyer.

Now that's a bummer. But how hard can it be to put in a HD compatible
177x and change the ROMs? Shouldn't it just be a case of addressing
more blocks as the floppy controller takes care of all the dirty work?

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