Re: Kits received -> HW question

From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2008-01-17 22:35:22

Antitrack@networld.at wrote:
> Quoting Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com>:
>  
>   
>> http://www.jbrain.com/vicug/gallery/1541IDE
>>     
>
> At the risk of sounding like a hardware IDIOT, I still have to ask this 
> question...."Geeze, I thought this hardware is installed _inside the 1541 
> floppy_ so why would it need a connector to the c64 expansion port?"
> "I also thought I simply have to unplug my 1541's 6502, insert this PCB, put 
> the 6502 on the PCB and it worked?"
>
>   
Just ignore the expansion port.

Longer answer:  Some may want to develop IDE code on the 64 as a way to 
more quickly test.  Thus, plug the board into the 64, test code, burn 
your eprom, fit the board on the 1541 with your eprom, and go.

Jim

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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations                                      (X)
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