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echo: 64_talk
to: Rod Gasson
from: Russell Alphey
date: 1994-02-20 14:48:10
subject: 1541 drives

>  RA> It CAN be done - just takes a hardware mod.

 > Details please !

Okay, I'll dig them up!

 > I don't beleive at can be done (at least not as "easily" as
you imply).
 > These drives were never designed for MFM capability so the "mimimum"
 > you'll have to do is add new controller circuitry, new decoding
 > circuits, plus the ROM routines..  In short you would be building a new
 > drive. Even then you are stuck with single sided disks.

Yes, you definately are stuck with single sided disks, but I seem to
remember it being not a lot more than cutting a trace, and running a
program on the 64.

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