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From: Suudy on 19 Apr 2008 11:33
Well, I have been working with Jim Brain and a schematic/PCB guy to
develop the latest in the U1541. The good new is that the schematic
is complete and the PCB nearly complete. You can go to http://mudplace.org/?cat=3
to view the latest blog entries and the schematic work.

Soon I will be ordering some boards and parts. The final cost isn't
worked out yet, but it is looking to be roughly $50 in parts plus
board costs. Though these are small quantity orders. The price would
drop significantly in larger quantities.

Anyways, please browse the blog and feel free to send me comments!

Thanks,
Pete
From: christianlott1 on 19 Apr 2008 13:49
On Apr 19, 10:33 am, Suudy <pet...(a)mudplace.org> wrote:

> Anyways, please browse the blog and feel free to send me comments!

Could you please explain what this is about, what it's capabilities
are and why someone would prefer this solution to others?

From: Suudy on 20 Apr 2008 10:22
On Apr 19, 10:49 am, christianlott1 <christianlo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 10:33 am, Suudy <pet...(a)mudplace.org> wrote:
>
> > Anyways, please browse the blog and feel free to send me comments!
>
> Could you please explain what this is about, what it's capabilities
> are and why someone would prefer this solution to others?

Doh! Sure. I fogot the discussion was in a flurry of emails and that
they didn't make it to the blog. I added this information to the
blog.

Thanks,
Pete
From: christianlott1 on 20 Apr 2008 13:22
This method is exclusively for reading/writing D64/71/81 disks on the
1541/71/81?

This device will not hook straight into the back of the C64 (ie
emulate a disk drive)?

From: BruceMcF on 20 Apr 2008 16:32
On Apr 20, 1:22 pm, christianlott1 <christianlo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> This method is exclusively for reading/writing D64/71/81 disks on the
> 1541/71/81?

> This device will not hook straight into the back of the C64 (ie
> emulate a disk drive)?

AFAIU, yes, it will. More and more home computers will be coming out
without parallel ports ... this replaces the connection between the
back of the C64 tand the parallel port of a PC that allows a PC to
pretend to be a 41/71/81. It does more of this in hardware using the
microcontroller part to acts as a bridge, which opens up other
possibilities, and there is expansion built into the design to permit
exploring those possibilities.

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