In the first update to my PIEEE-488 PET dual drive project I take the breadboard design from part 1 and convert it into a PCB. […]
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PIEEE-488
The PIEEE-488 is a Raspberry PI hat designed to emulate the old style dual floppy drives for the Commodore PET. At least that’s the idea. […]
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Building a Pi 1541 for the Commodore 64
The PI 1541 is a modern cycle-exact emulator for the venerable Commodore 1541 disk drive. It emulates everything: the 6502 CPU, the two 6522 VIAs… […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 3
Last time we powered on the SFD 1001 floppy drive and discovered that it didn’t work. At least it did work a little bit – […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 2
In this video we continue the floppy drive repair that we started last week. The SFD 1001 is an interesting drive. It was one of […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Drive Teardown and Repair
The Commodore SFD 1001 floppy disk drive is an interesting beast. It looks like a 1541, but it’s not. To start with, it’s an IEEE-488 […]
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Put a Mean Well RD-35A PSU in a 1571
I replaced the big, heavy linear power supply in my Commodore 1571 disk drive with a tiny Mean Well RD-35A switching power supply. The Mean […]
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1571 Disk Drive Repair
My 1571 disk drive throws some weird errors. In this series of three videos, I attempt to repair it… Very occasionally the drive works. Mostly […]
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