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My first thought was, cool! I still have my Commodore 64, and it still works (tested a few weeks ago).

Second thought was, damn! How the heck am I going to get that on a floppy to load it on my Commodore?

Provided that you have an LPT port. http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html

No, now you just need a USB port. I developed the ZoomFloppy to read/write old formats from modern computers. This way we can archive bits that might disappear otherwise.

http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html

The nice thing about the old commodore drives is that they (almost) use a standard bus that allows easy implementation using microcontrollers: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/SD2IEC

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