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tHIS INFORMATION APPLIES TO cOMMODORE 1551 dISK dRIVE USED WITH pLUS/4.
dISKETTES CREATED ON THE 1551 ARE READ WRITE COMPATIBLE WITH cOMMODORE
1540/1541, 4040, 2031 DISK DRIVES. tHE 1551 IS CONNECTED TO THE
COMPUTER THROUGH THE "tcbm" INTERFACE. tHIS INTERFACE IS SPECIALLY
CREATED BY cOMMODORE. bYTES ARE TRANSFERRED AS PARALLEL DATA WITH A
3-BIT BI-DIRECTIONAL PORT, TWO HANDSHAKE LINES, AND TWO STATUS
LINES. tHIS HANDSHAKE PROTOCOL ALLOWS FOR LESS TIMING CONSTRAINT THAN
SLOWER SERIAL INTERFACES. eSTIMATED DATA RATE OVER THE tcbm HANDSHAKE
IS 1600 BYTES PER SECOND VERSUS 300-400 BYTES PER SECOND FOR THE 1541
DRIVE. tHE 1551 CONNECTOR PLUGS INTO THE HOST COMPUTER'S EXPANSION
PORT AND ALLOWS EXTERNAL CARTRIDGES TO BE PLUGGED IN. yOU CAN HAVE TWO
1551 DRIVES, TWO 1541 DRIVES, AND TWO PRINTERS HOOKED UP TO THE
COMPUTER AT ONCE AS LONG AS EACH PERIPHERAL IS ASSIGNED A DIFFERENT
DEVICE NUMBER. wHEN THERE IS A CONTENTION WITH DUPLICATE DEVICE
NUMBERS, THE 1551 HAS PRIORITY OVER THE 1541.
mEMORY MAP:
lOCATIONpURPOSE
$0000-00018 BIT PORT - 6510t
$0002-00FFzERO PAGE WORK AREA, *JOB QUEUE, VARIABLES
$0100-01FFgcr OVERFLOW AREA AND STACK
$0200-02FFcOMMAND BUFFER, PARSER, TABLES, VARIABLES
$0300-06FF4 DATA BUFFERS, 0-3
$0700-07FFbam RESIDENT IN MEMORY
$4000-40076523A i/o TO COMPUTER CONTROLLER
$C000-FFE516kb rom, dos AND CONTROLLER ROUTINES
$FFE6-FFFFjmp TABLE, USER COMMAND VECTORS
*JOB QUEUE AND hdrs OFFSET BY 2 BYTES - STARTS AT $0002
uSER COMMANDS:
uSER COMMANDfUNCTION
U1 OR UAbLOCK READ REPLACEMENT
U2 OR UBbLOCK WRITE REPLACEMENT
U3 OR UCjUMP TO $0500
U4 OR UDjUMP TO $0503
U5 OR UEjUMP TO $0506
U6 OR UFjUMP TO $0509
U7 OR UGjUMP TO $050C
U8 OR UHjUMP TO $050F
U9 OR UIjUMP TO ($FFFA) RESET TABLES
U: OR UJpOWER UP VECTOR
tHE U1 AND U2 COMMANDS ARE USED TO REPLACE THE bLOCK-rEAD AND
bLOCK-wRITE COMMANDS, UI RESTARTS THE 1551 WITHOUT CHANGING VARIABLES,
UJ COLD-STARTS THE 1551 ALMOST AS IF IT HAD BEEN TURNED OFF AND ON
AGAIN.
sPECIFICATIONS OF THE 1551 DISK DRIVE:
sTORAGE:
tOTAL FORMATTED CAPACITY174848 BYTES PER DISKETTE
mAXIMUM SEQUENTIAL FILE SIZE168656 BYTES PER DISKETTE
mAXIMUM RELATIVE FILE SIZE167132 BYTES PER DISKETTE
rECORDS PER FILE65535
fILES PER DISKETTE144
tRACKS PER DISKETTE35
sECTORS PER TRACK17-21
sECTORS PER DISKETTE683 TOTAL
sECTORS PER DISKETTE664 FREE FOR DATA
bYTES PER SECTOR256
iNTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIPS USED:
6510tmICROPROCESSOR, i/o
6523ai/o
2312816kb rom
40162kb ram
gATE ARRAYcONTROLLER CIRCUIT
pHYSICAL DIMENSIONS:
hEIGHT97 MM
wIDTH200 MM
dEPTH374 MM
wEIGHT10.5 KG
eLECTRICAL REQUIREMENTS:
vOLTAGE us100-120 vac
vOLTAGE EXPORT220-240 vac
fREQ us60 hZ
fREQ EXPORT50 hZ
pOWER USED25 wATTS
mEDIA:
5 1/4 INCH DISKETTE
rEWRITTEN FROM THE cOMMODORE 1551 dISK dRIVE uSER'S mANUAL.
(C) 1999 BY jAN sEFCIK.
tHE INFORMATION HEREBY IS GIVEN WITHOUT WARRANTY AND MAY NOT BE
MODIFIED WITHOUT PERMISSION. fOR COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL TO
JAN_SEFCIK@HP.COM