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 -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations (X) brain@jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! Home: http://www.jbrain.com Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
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