Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

If you showed up at the Norwood Bingo Hall on the third Sunday this month and wondered where everyone was, this month's meeting was shuffled to the 4th Sunday (due to Father's Day). Hopefully you remembered those guys on their day.

For those of you that attended last month's meeting, you got a sneek peek of a project I was working on called 64HDD. I've decided to forgo the internal 1541 drive, but keep the power connectors accessible from outside the PC's case. This will allow connection of an external 1541-II or 1581 drive since they use the same type of power connection. The size of the case I had selected to use for this project was a mini-case, and as such, has limited space available. The space needed to put the Commodore based disk drive internally was just too long to properly fit within the confines available. Using another drive I had access to, allowed fitting into the case, however, I needed an additional drive bay for the additional circuit board. This additional board held the connectors for serial access and power cords. Unfortunately, the CD-ROM drive bay was the only area big enough to hold this additional board. I wanted to keep the CD-ROM drive internal to the PC case, which lead me to resorting keeping my 1541 drive external.

At the Louisville Expo last month, a 64HDD was being demonstrated by another Commodore enthusiast. His ideas appear to be similar to mine, using the entire PC case. As I get closer to completion of this project, I'll bring it in for everyone to look at, and even demo it at our own meeting in the near future.

Congratulations go to the newly elected officers who will be installed at this month's meeting on June 23. See you all then and keep on Commodoring!