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    From cpuloyal@cpuloyal@uymail.com (Rodolfo Leal) to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 10:57:40
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    Hello everybody,
    Through a recent shopping spree at Ebay, I managed to get a Quick
    Data Drive. Good to the seller description, it came with the system
    wafer and an empty one, which was quickly destroyed as I pull it from
    the drive. Fortunately, I got another couple of empty wafers to cover
    the loss.
    I know these things didn't catch any attention in America (I got
    mine from the UK), but I was wondering if by some kind of luck they
    are available somewhere. I wont play a lot with it, as I have a 64HDD
    setup to cover my backup needs, but it would be nice to have spare
    wafers, just in case.
    In the other hand, I made a snapshoot with an Action Replay
    cartridge of the C64 with the QOS installed. I did this as I haven't
    had too much time to study which vectors are modified to load the the
    system.
    QOS stands for Quick Operative System. It was the system
    responsible of handling the Quick Data Drive. It even offered a wedge
    to manipulate files on the wafers
    The manual just says that the main program uses the memory from
    $C000 up to $CFFF and the wedge from $A000 up to $AFFF, with the
    memory from $B000 up to $BFFF used as a data buffer.
    I can make this snapshoot available as a D64 file to anybody who
    might want to study it. Just let me know and I will upload it.

    Regards,
    Rodolfo Leal
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  • From Leo@commodore128@hotmailspamtrap.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 21:22:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    "Rodolfo Leal" <cpuloyal@uymail.com> wrote in message news:d8d8fcb5.0401261057.6234a7c0@posting.google.com...
    Hello everybody,
    Through a recent shopping spree at Ebay, I managed to get a Quick
    Data Drive. Good to the seller description, it came with the system
    wafer and an empty one, which was quickly destroyed as I pull it from
    the drive. Fortunately, I got another couple of empty wafers to cover
    the loss.
    I know these things didn't catch any attention in America (I got
    mine from the UK), but I was wondering if by some kind of luck they
    are available somewhere. I wont play a lot with it, as I have a 64HDD
    setup to cover my backup needs, but it would be nice to have spare
    wafers, just in case.
    In the other hand, I made a snapshoot with an Action Replay
    cartridge of the C64 with the QOS installed. I did this as I haven't
    had too much time to study which vectors are modified to load the the
    system.
    QOS stands for Quick Operative System. It was the system
    responsible of handling the Quick Data Drive. It even offered a wedge
    to manipulate files on the wafers
    The manual just says that the main program uses the memory from
    $C000 up to $CFFF and the wedge from $A000 up to $AFFF, with the
    memory from $B000 up to $BFFF used as a data buffer.
    I can make this snapshoot available as a D64 file to anybody who
    might want to study it. Just let me know and I will upload it.

    Regards,
    Rodolfo Leal

    Hi Rodolfo,
    I to would be interested in getting some spare wafers. If you find an excess
    of them and want to sell a few, please get ahold of me.Thanks.

    Leo

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