#1541
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I was pretty convinced another solution exists apart from the jurassic 1541! I
just can't imagine such a drive can't be produced for a ridiculous amount of
money…
Fred.
Frederic Botton from Paris, France
fbotton@cix.compulink.co.uk
>> I just can't imagine that such a drive can't be produced for a ridiculous
amount of money…
Let me see. You have two negatives in there, and I'm not sure whether you
are saying ridiculously-high or ridiculously-low …
Several third-party vendors made 1541 clones until Commodore squashed them.
Keep in mind that the 1541 has quite a bit of RAM and logic inside, all of
which adds to the manufacturing cost. It's still hard to convince
non-Commodore types that you can plug a drive or two into your 64K machine, and
still have 64K of memory available in your computer.
A 1541-style machine just needs extra stuff inside, which make it non
industry standard and increase the price. It was intersting to see that the
C65 was claimed to be able to interface with "industry standard" drives, both
floppy and HD.
–Jim
>Let me see. You have two negatives in there, and I'm not sure whether you
>are saying ridiculously-high or ridiculously-low …
Sorry about my so-called English |-) I was trying to say ridiculously-low…
>C65 was claimed to be able to interface with "industry standard" drives, >both
floppy and HD.
If a 1541 drive still can't be produced at a reasonable price (thanks for your
hardware explanations, Jim), then they _have_ to go for a "standard"…
Fred.
Frederic Botton from Paris, France
fbotton@cix.compulink.co.uk
>> Sorry about my so-called English |-)
Not at all. Your English is excellent. It's just that sometimes a question
isn't completely clear, and I hate to misunderstand and send an answer to
something that hasn't been asked. This happens no matter what the poster's
native language happens to be. Heck, I'm sure that my questions (and replies)
are sometimes not clear to the reader.
To take it one step further, some of the programs I write are not clear to
the computer that runs them. But everyone knows that computers are dumber than
people, but smarter than programmers. 🙂
–Jim
🙂 But Betty said you were fluent in French! Ok, next time I'll expand in
French ;-)) It's funny computers do not understand French… I keep telling my
Amiga to "FORMATTE LECTEUR df0: NOM Lancement VITE" without any positive
results 😉
Fred.
Frederic Botton from Paris, France
fbotton@cix.compulink.co.uk
>> I keep telling my Amiga to "FORMATTE LECTEUR df0: NOM Lancement VITE"
without any positive results…
Perhaps she's offended that you would "tutoyer" her without the proper
introductions. Think "FORMATTEZ…" would do it? 🙂
I don't recall ever having trouble with your use of English as such. Sometimes
when I see someone using a strange combination of words, I might try to
"reverse translate" to try to figure out what is meant. There are celebrated
Pennsylvania Dutch expressions, such as "Throw momma from the train a kiss".
And I once had a letter from a Dutch correspondent who proudly advised me,
"Last week I have become a Honda". (Somebody told him to avoid using the word
"get", and so he threw in the handiest similar phrase he could find).
Reverse translation doesn't always work, of course. There's the apocryphal
story of the technical paper translated by computer into Russian, following
which the Russian text was mechanically translated back to English. In the
final version, readers could not understand the reference to "water buffalo" in
an Engineering paper. When the original text was checked, it turned out to
refer to a hydraulic ram. 🙂
–Jim
Frederic,
You said and I quote, "I keep telling my Amiga to "FORMATTE LECTEUR df0: NOM
Lancement VITE" without any positive results ;-)"
Merde!
Regards,
John Chang
Fred,
I suspect you could write your question in French and Jim would understand it
perfectly – and could answer you in French. But I appreciate your making the
effort to use English here, so that the *rest* of use can understand both the
question and the answer. I'm afraid that my one year of college French (more
years ago than I plan to say) just isn't up to it.
—Betty