Re: Commodore 65 and DIN8 cable

From: Bo Zimmerman <*bo_at_zimmers.net*> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:05:52 -0600 Message-ID: <56E06600.2020805@zimmers.net> · bo_at_zimmers.net

On 3/7/2016 12:05 PM, Michał Pleban wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Bo Zimmerman wrote:
>
>> No digging necessary.  C65 is standing by.
> Great! Can you test if the internal drive is working reliably [*] if (a)
> the cable is inserted into the C65, but the external drive is not
> connected on the other end, and (b) if the external drive is connected
> but not turned on?

The internal drive works fine in both cases.

- Bo

> Regards,
> Michau.
>
> [*] For testing the internal drive, I created a 64 kB SEQ file and used
> the COPY command to read and write a copy of the file on the same
> diskette. That amounts to almost 270 sector reads and writes.
>
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