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The TS-Pico, a Raspberry Pi Pico board that gives the 2068 an SD card, comes with its own ROM, and that ROM gives the 2068 two new kinds of channel: f: reads and writes files on the SD card, and d: reads folder listings.
Many people who use the 2068 have generally no idea what the commands OPEN# and CLOSE# are for and what they can do. These commands were intended for use with the Microdrives, but we can use them an entirely different way.
Using the OPEN# and CLOSE# Commands on the TS 2068Read More »
Let’s delve into the mysterious realm of channels and streams and those two odd tokens OPEN # and CLOSE #. These two commands are extremely powerful and have many uses and yet there is nothing at all about them in the TS2068 User Manual except to say that “these and other commands like FORMAT, MOVE, CAT etc will be used with future peripherals”.