The Singing 1541 Floppy Drive

The Commodore 64's 1541 floppy drive playing music. Probably one of the most unusual things this computer could do. More odd stuff on my blog: http://classicalgasemissions.blogspot...

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[donstratton]

Unless you were loading off a datasette, in which case you had time to defrost and cook a turkey. ;)

[MrCumstein]

It's HAL 9000's inbred cousin!

[hospitalismus]

Problem behoben

[Jeff Axelrod]

+Incrementalism it was called a pair of scissors.

[Incrementalism]

There was a nifty device called a disk doubler that was designed to cut a notch in the proper place to make the back side formatable and useable.

[Incrementalism]

It seemed that merely reading disks caused the 1541 to gradually get knocked out of alignment. Would making music would wear it out a whole lot faster?

[Tommy Brown]

the floppy drive is pissed lol



[44R0Ndin]

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't answer that...

[Zoidberg227]

H -- HAL? Is that you?

[Vectrex4Life]

I knew and still know what the size was. I was asking what size in KB that the drive reads. But now I know.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

5.25"

[opoverlord]

I remember making a c64 drive do that when I was a freshmen in HS. I told a computer guy about it and he didn't believe me. Well...now I have proof!