The Commodore 1541 Disk Drive User's Guide

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FOR A CLASS B COMPUTING DEVICE, PURSUANT TO SUBPART J OF PART 15 OFFCC RULES. ONLY PERIPHERALS (COMPUTER INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES, TERMINALS,PRINTERS, ETC.) CERTIFIED TO COMPLY WITH THE CLASS B LIMITS MAY BEATTACHED TO THIS COMPUTER. OPERATION WITH NON-CERTIFIED PERIPHERALSIS LIKELY TO RESULT IN INTERFERENCE TO RADIO AND TV RECEPTION.""THIS EQUIPMENT GENERATES AND USES RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY AND IF NOTINSTALLED PROPERLY, THAT IS, IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH THEMANUFACTURER'S INSTRUCTIONS, MAY CAUSE INTERFERENCE TO RADIO ANDTELEVISION RECEPTION. IT HAS BEEN TYPE TESTED AND FOUND TO COMPLYWITH THE LIMITS FOR A CLASS B COMPUTING DEVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THESPECIFICATIONS IN SUBPART J OF PART 15 OF FCC RULES, WHICH AREDESIGNED TO PROVIDE REASONABLE PROTECTION AGAINST SUCH INTERFERENCE INA RESIDENTIAL INSTALLATION. HOWEVER, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THATINTERFERENCE WILL NOT OCCUR IN A PARTICULAR INSTALLATION. IF THISEQUIPMENT DOES CAUSE INTERFERENCE TO RADIO OR TELEVISION RECEPTION,WHICH CAN BE DETERMINED BY TURNING THE EQUIPMENT OFF AND ON, THE USERIS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO CORRECT THE INTERFERENCE BY ONE OR MORE OF THEFOLLOWING MEASURES:* REORIENT THE RECEIVING ANTENNA* RELOCATE THE COMPUTER WITH RESPECT TO THE RECEIVER* MOVE THE COMPUTER AWAY FROM THE RECEIVER* PLUG THE COMPUTER INTO A DIFFERENT OUTLET SO THAT COMPUTER ANDRECEIVER ARE ON DIFFERENT BRANCH CIRCUITS"IF NECESSARY, THE USER SHOULD CONSULT THE DEALER OR AN EXPERIENCEDRADIO/TELEVISION TECHNICIAN FOR ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS. THE USER MAYFIND THE FOLLOWING BOOKLET PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONSCOMMISSION HELPFUL: 'HOW TO IDENTIFY AND RESOLVE RADIO-TV INTERFERENCEPROBLEMS.' THIS BOOKLET IS AVAILABLE FROM THE U.S. GVERNMENT PRINTINGOFFIC, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2402, STOCK NO. 004-000-00345-4."PART NO: 320970The information in this manual has been reviewed and is believed to beentirely reliable. No responsibility, however, is assumed forinaccuracies. The material in this manual is for information purposesonly, and is subject to change without notice.(C) Commodore Business Machines Electronics Ltd., September 1982"All rights reserved."Table of Contents [ Section ]1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION[ Introduction........................................ 1 ][ Specifications...................................... 2 ]2. UNPACKING AND CONNECTINGContents of Box..................................... 1Connection of Cables................................ 2

Powering On......................................... 3Insertion of Diskette............................... 4Using with VIC 20 or Commodore 64................... 53. USING PROGRAMSLoading Pre-packaged Software....................... 1LOAD................................................ 2Directory of Disk................................... 3Pattern Matching & Wild Cards....................... 4SAVE................................................ 5SAVE and replace.................................... 6VERIFY.............................................. 7DOS Support Program................................. 84. DISK COMMANDSOPEN AND PRINT #.................................... 1NEW................................................. 2COPY................................................ 3RENAME.............................................. 4SCRATCH............................................. 5INITIALIZE.......................................... 6VALIDATE............................................ 7DUPLICATE........................................... 8Reading the Error Channel........................... 9CLOSE...............................................105. SEQUENTIAL FILESOPEN................................................ 1PRINT# and INPUT#................................... 2GET#................................................ 3Reading the Directory............................... 46. RANDOM FILES[ Explanation......................................... 1 ]Opening a channel for random access data............ 2BLOCK-READ.......................................... 3BLOCK-WRITE......................................... 4BLOCK-ALLOCATE...................................... 5BLOCK-FREE.......................................... 6[ Using Random Files.................................. 7 ]BUFFER-POINTER...................................... 8USER1 and USER2..................................... 97. RELATIVE FILES[ Introduction........................................ 1 ]Creating a relative file............................ 2Using relative files................................ 3Create a relative file.............................. 4Summary............................................. 5Modifying the program............................... 68. PROGRAMNUNG THE DISK CONTROLLERBLOCK-EXECUTE....................................... 1MEMORY-READ......................................... 2MEMORY-WRITE........................................ 3MEMORY-EXECUTE...................................... 4USER Commands....................................... 5