{"id":1590,"date":"2021-08-06T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2021-08-06T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:25:38","slug":"announcement-the-ultimate-commodore-1541-disk-drive-talk-vcfw-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"[Announcement] The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk @ VCFW 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk (2008)<\/li>\n<li>The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (2016)<\/li>\n<li>The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>my fourth talk from the \u201cUltimate\u201d series will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vcfed.org\/wp\/vcf-west-event-schedule\/\">Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 in Mountain View on 2021-08-08 at 12:00<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This talk discusses floppy disk drives, with the 5,25\u201d Commodore 1541 as a case study. We  discuss the history of magnetic recording formats, how data is represented on a disk and how it gets from the drive to the computer. We also talk about fast loaders, alternate recording formats, copy protection schemes, and how to preserve disks using modern tools.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"docs\/vcfw-1541.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk (2008) The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (2016) The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (2017) my fourth talk from the \u201cUltimate\u201d series will take place at the Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 in Mountain View on 2021-08-08 at 12:00. This talk discusses floppy disk drives, with the 5,25\u201d Commodore 1541 &#8230; <a title=\"[Announcement] The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk @ VCFW 2021\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=1590\" aria-label=\"Read more about [Announcement] The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk @ VCFW 2021\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,41,8,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-c64","category-commodore","category-floppy-disks","category-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}