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- From: techrat@vm.com (Brian Cirulnick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: SFD1001's for sale
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:46:18 -0500
- Organization: Vanguard Media
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <techrat-2802961746180001@techrat.vmediacorp.com>
- References: <3130D8DC.2EB1C2C9@ntr.net> <4h0ugo$hpt@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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- In article <4h0ugo$hpt@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>,
- gfrajkor@superior.carleton.ca (George Frajkor) wrote:
-
- > 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.
-
- I would also be interested in these (aw hell, I should just buy a CMD
- harddrive), but seriously, if nothing else, I could really use the serial
- to IEEE interface, as I've "tripped" over SFD1001's many times in the past
- without ever getting them because I had no way of connecting them to my
- setup. I cannot use the cart port as I have a 1764REU in that port.
-
- I'd definitely pay shipping!
-
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