Re: 1541 – two computers, one drive

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:30:03 -0500
Message-ID: <5ce46053-e6e3-20d3-a7a0-fa04ada65236_at_jbrain.com>
On 3/25/2020 11:31 AM, silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>
>> On 2020-03-25, at 16:35, Spiro Trikaliotis <ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Thus, if your setup allows one switched off controller, the procedure
>> can be:
>>
>> 1. Switch on all drives and computer 1
>> 2. If it is a C64, do the LOAD (or the POKE) as given above
>>    If it is a C128, wait until the boot access has stopped and you see
>>    the power on message
>> 3. Switch on the other computer 2
>>    If it is a C64, do the LOAD (or the POKE) as given above
> But if computer 1 has the board with RESET passed through then you'd need to do the LOAD from there again, which wouldn't work because computer 2 would be holding the line ;-) So I guess the safest would be to do the POKEs (rather than LOADs) on both computers, after everything is turned on.
>
To test, I unplugged the IEC cable from 1 machine, did a bogus load from 
both, and then reconnected the cable.

Jim


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Received on 2020-05-30 01:25:08

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