Posted By
JamesC
on 2005-10-14
21:23:34
|  Re: Using Commodore 1541 disk drive on a Commodore + 4
TLCCNS:
a) Commodore did not market an IEEE interface for the Plus/4, yet they did with VIC/VC20 (VIC1111 if I remember correctly is the IEEE interface cartirdge). The VIC1111 will not fit in the Plus/4's cartridge slot.
2) By the time the Plus/4 came out, the PET/CBM series were pretty much finished anyway. Commodore was selling more 64's and 1541s to the home market than they did the entire PET/CBM series to business and educational markets. Therefore, there was no incentive to produce an IEEE interface for a disk drive that was shortly to be discontinued. Besides, the TCBM bus (theoretically) was just as fast if not faster than the IEEE bus.
iii) I have not attempted to use my MSD as the beginning of a chain of IEEE devices, then using its serial interface to connect the IEEE chain to the Plus/4. I doubt it would work, but I lack the IEEE drives and cables to even attempt such a test.
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