[TheForge] Excessive scaling?

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Dave:
>
> I still have my Commodore 64 and it functions. The disc drive doesn't 
> register properly as was common. They had a plastic component in the 
> drive mechanism that would get soft when it got hot and the disc would 
> move so it never knew where something started or stopped. It still 
> functioned but you could only put one program on a disc.
>
> I have the tape drive and probably 15-20 programs on tape. I liked the 
> Commodore 64, it was fast and for it's day quite powerful. It ran 
> WordPerfect-2 a lot better than the Apples of the day did, heck, it 
> ran it better than the Apple II+ did three years later. That was my 
> only Apple and it was a step backwards for a lot more money.
>
> A friend of mine still has his original Big Blue-8086.
>
> Okay, NOW I feel old. <sigh>
>
> Frosty
Well Frosty, don't know if they would be if use to you, if so I might 
work out a loan, but somewhere in the attic, I have the commodore 1541 
Disk drive repair manuals, along with annotated ROM listings for the 
1541 ( it was a whole microcomputer in itself)   I actually wrote a 
number of programs for the disk drive way back when.  The 64 drive -- 
the 1541 -- was actually half of a Commodore Pet dual drive unit.  The 
ROM still thinks it has two drives.  On the Pet dual drive unit, you 
could copy disk to disk without involving the computer.   The C64 unit 
sometimes got confused and locked up when the second phantom drive 
wouldn't respond.

Charles