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From: seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Hard Drive for C-64
Summary: There MUST be a better way..
Message-ID: <14894@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 15:49:29 GMT
References: <22390@cup.portal.com> <8912@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen)
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Organization: Crazy Dave's Computer Emporium, Houston
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pwong@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) writes:
>Heartmate@cup.portal.com (Christine K Paustian) writes:
>>Looking for advice - am interested in a hard drive for a C-64 --> any
>>suggestions?  Please E-Mail responses.  Many thanks!
>
>From most of the catalogs I have come across, the only C64 hard drive 
>available is made by Xetec and it sells for more than $700 !!!

This has annoyed me for almost a decade.  I understand why a full
emulation of the 1541 operating system costs so much, but why isn't
a partial emulation available?

Gimme a SCSI interface for my 128/64, and let me buy one of the cheapo
(reconditioned) hard drives I see advertised in the _Computer Shopper_!
10MB costs less than $99 now, and ten megabytes will do me just fine for
my Commodore.. I can even do without the blinding speed of the Xetec
harddrives; if I could buy that SCSI interface for +/- $100 I would do
the DOS emulation myself.

Anyone know of a cheap SCSI interface for the 64?  Or schematics to build
one?  How about scematics/plans to emulate an IBM 8-bit card slot? :-)

David

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