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- From: gfrajkor@superior.carleton.ca (George Frajkor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: SFD1001's for sale
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 06:59:36 GMT
- Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Message-ID: <4h0ugo$hpt@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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- In article <3130D8DC.2EB1C2C9@ntr.net>, Corey Stup <cstup@ntr.net> wrote:
- >I have a pair of SFD1001's (1M floppies) and 2 interfaces for them.
- >A Flash-64 (uses the cart port) and a serial to IEEE interface (daisy
- >chains with the rest of your serial drives...)
- >
- >If anyone is interested in picking these up, let me know. I'd like
- >to find a good home for them.
-
- Where are you? What does picking up mean? I would be interested as
- my own two 1001s may be giving up the ghost soon after 10 years of
- constant work without a single breakdown. They are remarkable
- machines. If only jiffdos would work with them. This drive (and the
- 8250) was a 1meg machine at a time when IBM disks were 360k and Apple
- II drives were 117k . They are as solid as Gibraltar, in my opinion,
- and Commodore never took advantage of its expertise with drive
- technology.
- An aside -- a professional programmer I knew tells me that
- Digital Equipment Corporation once made a single-sided floppy holding
- 400k (beat the hell out of IBM's measly 360k) which even DEC computers
- could not format. You had to buy them pre-formatted from DEC, at high
- prices. Until someone discovered that the Commodore 1571 could format
- almost anything. As you know, the 1571 was built to accommodate CPM,
- can read and write MS-Dos, etc. It took no time at all for DEC
- customers to discover that this amateur machine could do something
- their own machines could not do.
- Now you know why Commodore went broke.
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