Re: CBM DOS 1.0 / CBM 2040, 3040 with 670 blk free

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2000-03-06 04:37:45

Osborne's "PET Personal Computer Guide" lists a whole page of bugs with
DOS 1.  The only one that refers to the IEEE bus is as follows:

"Occasionally during a multiple Get command, the disk unit transmits a
data byte onto the bus that may appear to other peripherals like a command
from the computer."

As far as I can tell, the ROMs on funet are correct.  I do not have the
original ROMs and have not been able to find any EPROMs that work in the
double drives, so I cannot verify them.

Commodore numbered their parts a little differently at the beginning than
they did later.  All the ROMs of the same type were numbered in
sequence, regardless of how they were used. All the parts lists that
I have seen list only the part numbers you listed.  I do not recall there
being any others.  The missing numbers may have been prototypes or ROMs
for totally different equipment.

Most 2040/3040 drives were upgraded to 4040s when the new ROMs were
released.  Drives with 2040/3040 labels on the outside probably do not
contain 2040/3040 ROMs.  You will have to check the part numbers on the
ROMs to be sure.

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