c1541 as a "paper-r" -drive

Pekka Takala

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Dec 10, 2003, 7:46:07 AM12/10/03

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I found a article in alt.c64 describing that one could use a head broken
1541 as a circular cardboard reader when they change the read/write head
to a optoreader.

I laughed for the idea myself, but then got another, much funnier idea:

We add optical reader to the head and also a small hotpin warmed up with
recistor (i.e same way as a thermal printer prints on a paper!)

Then we just write a cbm disk image on the paper then disable the warm up
pin. Voila, we now have a commodore optical paper-r drive! It might be
interesting to look at the paper... and now the best: we could write at
1x speed, and read as fast as we can, since the optical sensors are really
fast.

The method is write-once-read-many times, but who cares, when that
atleast is wery freak already!

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Dec 10, 2003, 7:57:52 AM12/10/03

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Pekka Takala <pekka....@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
>I found a article in alt.c64 describing that one could use a head broken
>1541 as a circular cardboard reader when they change the read/write head
>to a optoreader.

>I laughed for the idea myself, but then got another, much funnier idea:

>We add optical reader to the head and also a small hotpin warmed up with
>recistor (i.e same way as a thermal printer prints on a paper!)

>Then we just write a cbm disk image on the paper then disable the warm up
>pin. Voila, we now have a commodore optical paper-r drive! It might be
>interesting to look at the paper... and now the best: we could write at
>1x speed, and read as fast as we can, since the optical sensors are really
>fast.

Read might be fast, but I dault write will be .. :)

Agemixer

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Dec 10, 2003, 7:59:53 AM12/10/03

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"Please flip the paper side 2." :-)

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Pekka Takala

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Dec 10, 2003, 8:05:10 AM12/10/03

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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:59:53 +0200, Agemixer wrote:

> "Please flip the paper side 2." :-)

We of course implement both sides, and of course the disk must change the
rotation direction when reading paper side 2 :) so we could put the disk
in any way possible :)

Anders Carlsson

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Dec 10, 2003, 8:24:44 AM12/10/03

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Pekka Takala <pekka....@pp.inet.fi> writes:

> The method is write-once-read-many times, but who cares, when that
> atleast is wery freak already!

In what kind of sleeve is a paper-r disk best protected? Plastic?

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Matthew Montchalin

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Dec 18, 2003, 4:36:35 AM12/18/03

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On 10 Dec 2003, Anders Carlsson wrote:
|Pekka Takala <pekka....@pp.inet.fi> writes:
|
|> The method is write-once-read-many times, but who cares, when that
|> atleast is wery freak already!
|
|In what kind of sleeve is a paper-r disk best protected? Plastic?

I doubt you'd want to fold them up, come to think of it.