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- From: brain@mail.msen.com (Jim Brain)
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- Subject: Re: 1572
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 08:16:47 -0400
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- In article <NW096NR.631714d7b.m9944@abc.se>,
- m9944@abc.se (Peter Karlsson) wrote:
- >
- >In a Commodore 128 book I have (bought it kind of cheap), a C1572 disk drive
- >unit is mentioned as being a double-disk 1571 drive.
- >
- >Does this beaty exist?
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- At least Two such prototypes exist.
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- Don't know where they are, but no more were produced, as the PS ran too hot,
- and the drive DOS was very buggy, owing to the engineers trying to
- reintroduce the dual drive code into dos 3.0 that was removed years erlier
- from the 2041 DOS to make DOS 2.6
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- Jim
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- >Peter - dat95pkn@idt.mdh.se - http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat95pkn
- > - Fido 2:204/145.42
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