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L O A D S T A R F O R U M
Brian Ketterling wrote this email,
and I hurried to get it into this
issue:
Hi Dave --
>Dave wrote:
>Last month, many of your internet
>services kicked back the D81 files as
>potential viruses. So you will
>recieve a WinZIP version as well. I
>will switch over all who have the D81
>kicked back.
Brian writes:
The .D81 version didn't bounce, but
please put me on your .zip list
anyway. I copy my Loadstar image
files to MS-DOS floppy on the PC,
then transfer them to disc on the
Commodore side. I can copy a zipped
file from MS-DOS disc to FD disc with
LRR, then use Errol Smith's Unzip128
to unpack the image onto a 1581
format disc, all in less time than it
takes to go directly from MS-DOS .D81
file to real 1581 disc using Doreen
Horne's very, very slow (albeit
reliable) 64-PC Connection vX.
Dave's Response:
This is great to know. Many others
might be in the same boat. Getting
the D81 to a real 1581 is a bit of a
trick! Your method sounds good --
using Little Red Reader and
Unzip128. I personally use 1581Copy,
an MS-DOS program that copies D81s
to 1581 disks right on the PC -- and
vice versa.
Thanks for the Jim Butterfield info
in your Expo article! I've often
wondered what he does now, and what
he was doing immediately after the
"Commodore Guru" era of his life that
I've known him by. By the way, he
doesn't have a Web site, does he?
Searching Yahoo for [Jim]
[Butterfield Commodore] brought up
about 841 hits. So far, I haven't
found one that is his own web page.
However, seeing all this good stuff
about Jim suggests that we can put
some of it in LOADSTARs.
Oh, also by the way... just to be a
stinky nit-picker regarding the
article:
- "C.M.O.S." isn't the company that
produced Commodore's chips -- that
was MOS Technology (...not to be
confused with Mostek, yet another
Silicon Valley company of the era).
- C.M.O.S. (normally written "CMOS")
is a type of integrated circuitry,
and stands for "Complementary
Symmetry Metal-Oxide Semiconductor"
(incidentally, most of MOS
Technology's chips weren't CMOS, but
rather an older process called NMOS
-- "N-Channel MOS").
- "C-MOS" isn't anything.
Anyway though, thanks again!
-- Brian
This "CMOS/MOS Technology/Mostek"
business has had me confused for
many years. Thank [you] for the
clear information. My own
Complementary Symmetry Metal-Oxide
Semiconductors aren't all they used
to be, if they ever were.
Therefore:
MOS Technology = CBM MOS Technology
MOS Technology <> Mostek
CMOS <> MOS <> Mostek
I think I can remember that!
DMM