1571 Commodore Drive
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Creator
Commodore Business Machines
Type
Data Disk Drive
Description
This is the internal 5¼-inch floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128D. It is able to read a double-sided, double-density disk without any need to flip the disk over.
Disks used in such a fashion could hold up 340 KB of data.
Subject
Data disk drives
Miscellaneous
The drive performs both GCR and MFM encodings, and could read the following CP/M formats:
IBM PC CP/M-86
Osborne 1
Epson QX10
Kaypro II, IV
CBM CP/M FORMAT SS
CBM CP/M FORMAT DS
Collection
Citation
Commodore Business Machines, “1571 Commodore Drive,” MITH's Vintage Computers, accessed October 7, 2018, https://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/items/show/76/.
