[Coco] The most bizarre thing

Johann Klasek johann+coco at klasek.at
Thu May 16 07:58:07 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:33:22PM -0500, camillus Blockx wrote:
> Or a interface to use the floppy drives from a comodore 64, they read
> the disk in a serial format.

For sure not. Serial IEC bus on Commodore computers have special serial protocol, not
compatible with that what usually a UART produces.

And, this interface do it the opposite way: serial from computer to a parallel device ...

[lots of full quotes deleted]

Johann E. K.



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