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- From: rioux@au.oro.net (Gerald Rioux)
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- Subject: Re: What's a 8250?
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 03:22:18 GMT
- Organization: oronet -- Penn Valley, CA USA 916-477-6650
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- M.F.C.vdnHout (M.F.C.vdnHout@kub.nl) wrote:
- : Hi, I just wanted to know what the 'C= 8250 dual disk drive' is used for
- : (PET?).
-
- : I saw one in a 2nd-hand-store. I do have 2 C-64's but I guess I can't use the
- : drive for those.
-
- The 8250 is a double sided dual floppy drive that requires an IEEE
- interface as someone else mentioned. Years ago, I used one with my C64
- and VIC20. It was fast and each disk held over 1 meg! (At the time, the
- best IBMs offered was 360K.) The only problem was that all the IEEE
- interfaces (I tried a few different brands) some memory conflicts with
- some programs. When loading or operating, some programs overwrote some
- sections of the code for the interfaces' routines.
-
- If you can get an IEEE interface, I'd encourage you to pick up the 8250.
- BTW, how much do they want for it?
-
- Jerry
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