Commodore VC 1541 Disk Drive
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The 1541 disk drive was the most popular disk drive used with the Commodore 64 computer. The 5.25" floppy disks were capable of storing 170Kb of data.
The drives used a serial interface and were relatively slow in transferring data at just 300 bytes per seccond. Various third party programs were able to speed this up to rates of around 4000 bytes per second.
Manufacturer : Commodore Physical Description : Disk drive Mains lead Box Poly Upper Poly Lower Instruction amnual This exhibit has a reference ID of CH44452. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. |
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