I went through this exercise about 15 years ago. At the time, the solution was to build a cable that attaches to the computer's parallel printer port at one en

I went through this exercise about 15 years ago. At the time, the solution was to build a cable that attaches to the computer's parallel printer port at one end, and the 1541 at the other, and run special software under DOS. There may have been software for newer Microsoft OS's and/or even Linux later. Start here: http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html but beware of bit/link rot.