RE: Who owns a 8050/8250 with tandon drives?

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:21:35 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1404152113160.12479@faeroes.freeshell.org>
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Hoffmann-Vetter, Martin wrote:

> There exists an other part number for an at this time unseen RRIOT from the
> 8250LP. (You know, the 8250LP use in production an EPROM with an adaper
> board.) This unit use a DOS 2.7, too. But it has the RRIOT with a diabled
> ROM for the Matsushita drives on the adapter board. (Any other RRIOT will
> alos work.) If the control of a Tandon drive and a Matsushita drive is the
> same, it's possible that anyone has upgrade the 8050T with the RRIOT of the
> 8250LP.
>
> The other question is, why use the 8250LP (and 8296D) an adapter board and
> the mircopolis RRIOT if an Tandon/Matsushita RRIOT exits?

Commodore obviously used the EPROM adapter and an existing surplus 
6530 rather than make more 6530s. But, the 6530s are fully functional, and 
there may be versions with ROM contents that we do not have.  So check the 
part numbers on the 6530s with adapter boards.

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