Here you go, this was the final auction where it sold:

[ebay]290382630266[/ebay]

Quote from: commodorejohn on January 15, 2010, 09:53 AM

Quote from: carlsson on January 15, 2010, 08:58 AMI thought a true 1540 has some slightly different mechanism, allowing it to auto boot an "&" file from the floppy disk. It would mean the ROM would look for a such file, but for some reason that feature would not work on a 1541 with a 1540 ROM. However I have only heard about this once, so I may have misunderstood a lot of the details.

According to the Wikipedia article (and as you know, Wikipedia is always right,) the 1540 and 1541 are mechanically identical. You may be right about the auto-boot, I dunno, but it wouldn't really make any sense for that to have anything to do with the hardware, since the filesystem is just a software construct anyway (though in the C= 8-bitters the software in question is in the drive.)

I believe the Commodore 128 was the first C= machine to support auto-booting from a disk.  There were some kernel replacements and carts for the C64 that were designed to auto-boot a disk primarily for BBS usage, but I'm pretty sure the standard kernal of the VIC-20 and C64 don't support an auto-boot feature. 

Maybe it was a feature that loaded code directly onto the 1540 itself?  It's essentially a computer in and of itself.

Quote from: maraud on January 15, 2010, 06:27 AM
so isn't the only difference with a 40 vs 41 is the serial timing.  Which makes them a little faster on the VIC?  If that's the case wouldn't putting a 1540 DOS and Kernel ROM in a 41 give you the same thing?

I believe you can place the 1541 in 1540 mode by sending it the initialize command UI- and retain the slightly higher speed on the VIC-20.

OPEN 15,8,15,"UI-":CLOSE 15

You're correct that the only technical difference between the 1540 and 1541 is in the ROM.

Hi Robert,

   I'm sorry to hear of Dave's passing, I only found this board a few days ago. It's always a sad day when you hear a member of the community has passed on.  I didn't know Dave personally, but he seemed like an fun and interesting fellow from his posts and from the videos I've seen of Mossycon 4 and 5.  I had hoped to get to over that way and attend Mossycon one year, it seemed like a great place to meet other C= users.

   Would you be willing to post some of the disks that Dave made for Mossycon or some of his disks of the month?  I would very much enjoy the chance to look through some of these, especially some of the adventure games and RPGs he created.  If you're not able to I understand.

Thank you again for your tribute.

~cbm-ii

Hi carlsson,

   Thank you for the reply.  I checked out his profile, but he doesn't currently seem to have any items for sale or recently sold.  I will keep an eye on his auctions to see if he posts any though.

   I should have mentioned in my original post that I live in the U.S. Hopefully I can find something on this side of the ocean to avoid problems with having to convert the power supply over.  And maybe reduce the shipping cost a bit. 

Hello

   I'm looking currently looking for 2031LP or SFD-1001 drive, but I haven't had much luck in finding one.  Could someone point me to where I might find one or does anyone have one they're willing to sell?  I'm looking for one in good working order.

Thank you!