Re: Commodore PLC TIB DD-001 / Drive 2001

Ah, yes, that one!
So it's not on my todo list anymore :)

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Steve Gray <sjgray@rogers.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you are referring to the PEDISK-II clone:
> http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/projects/pedisk2/index.html
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> This was a group project I was part of.
>
> You can find schematics, gerbers and various utiltities here:
> https://github.com/mnaberez/pedisk2
>
> It uses a standard FDC, but a fairly early one. The firmware is very
> minimal, supporting only sector reads. The DOS is loaded from disk and is
> very minimal (6 character filenames). IE: it's not "Commodore standard GCR"
> format compatible.
>
> Steve
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> ________________________________
> From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>
> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 1:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Commodore PLC TIB DD-001 / Drive 2001
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 6:56 PM, smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
>
>> On 20/05/2018 17:42, Steve Gray wrote:
>>>
>>> I was also planning to adapt this design to PET and/or CBM-II just for
>>> fun.
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>> That would sure be interesting, though dma on the c64 is very much tied
>> into
>> the VIC chip. So the adaptation might be extensive.
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> I'm sure there was a PET floppy expansion that used a "standard" FDC,
> it plugged in one of the ROM sockets plus some other few wires (write
> signal, maybe IRQ). It was on my todo list to make a clone of it, but
> I didn't save the url where I've seen it...
>
> Frank
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