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From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore PET software
Keywords: ancient old dusty
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Date: 28 Feb 91 04:03:24 GMT
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I, too, would be interested in knowing about any PET software archive.  I
have several PETs, several disk drives and several printers (OSU unloaded
a pallet full for ~$7-$10 per box).

To answer the original poster, yes and no.  Some PET disk drives (2031
and 4040) can read (and sort of write) C64 disks, and others (8050, 8050)
cannot read or write C64 disks.  There is much debate about whether or
not writing on C64 disks with a C= DOS other than v2.6 causes bit rot.  The
2031 uses (supposedly) the same software to read and write disks as the
1541, and the 4040 definitely uses similar but not identical software.

Good luck to all and happy PETting.

-ethan
 


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