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Re: 5.25" disk drive
« on: March 26, 2003, 01:50:38 AM »
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Also, Commodore also made some 5.25 drives that could store a whole megabyte or more back in the PET days before my time


Indeed - that would be the C= 1001 drive.
I ran a BBS off a Comodore 64 using 2 of these back in the early 80's.
You needed an ieee parallel interface plugged into the cart. port to run it :)

I remember 'upgrading' the bbs to a 5meg Pet HD -- The thing looked like a metal shoe box with a single led blinking on the front of it..

I still remember the oooohs and aaaaaaah's of my buds.

Cheers.
Siggy.
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