Re: 6522 bug

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 03:26:47 +0100
Message-ID: <20190115032647.00000e20@plea.se>
Den Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:54:40 +0000 skrev smf <smf@null.net>:
> On 10/01/2019 20:22, Mia Magnusson wrote:
> > In hindsight, it would had been better to make a new drive for the
> > C64,
> 
> The story goes that the c64 pcbs had already entered production
> before the 1541 was started.
> 
> So it would have required trashing them, or reworking them by hand & 
> there was no way jack tramiel was going to pay for either of those.

In hindsight, it might had been better to just sell them as they were
and change it in the next batch, and make the drive compatible with
both modes and offer some kind of upgrade for the oldest C64's to make
burst mode work for those who actually did buy a disk drive.

> We don't know for sure if burst mode was even capable of working
> before production broke it.

Well, as it's possible to just connect two CIA pins to the serial bus
connector on a C64 and get 1570/1571/1581 burst mode working, we should
assume that it did work.

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