Floppy

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The term floppy is most frequent used as a short form of floppy disk drive, less often as the short form of floppy disk.

Contents 1 Disk drives for the C64/VC20/C128/C16 2 Additional disk drives by Commodore 2.1 With IEEE-488 connector - for PET- and CBM Computers 2.2 For Amiga Computers 3 Third party disk drives 3.1 Amtech 3.2 Blue Chip Electronics, Inc. 3.3 Cardco, Inc 3.4 CMD 3.5 Elite 3.6 Tussy Computer Products 3.7 Blue Chip Electronics, Inc. 3.8 HBH Sales Company 3.9 World Disk Drives 3.10 The Comtel Group, Inc. 3.11 Indus Systems 3.12 MSD Systems, Inc. 3.13 Oceanic Electronics Group 3.14 REX 3.15 Rossmöller 4 Links

[edit] Disk drives for the C64/VC20/C128/C16

Commodore 1541

Commodore 1541-II

Commodore 1541 c

SD2IEC 1.2

The standard disk drive for the C64 is the VIC-1541, but the VIC-1570, VIC-1571, VIC-1581 and the SFC-1002 as well run with a C64. You can also connect drives with a parallel port, e.g. the SFD-1001, via userport and additional IEEE-488 interface cartridge.

The VC-20 standard drive is the VIC-1540 which can only be used with this computer. For the C128 it is the VIC-1570/71. The C16/116 or the Plus/4 use the VIC-1551, so to speak a VC-1541 with parallel port.

Commodore disk drives can be connected with an adapter cable (see X1541) to a PC.

New Hardware

Microcontrollers and FPGAs are so cheap and fast nowadays that it is possible to build an "alternative floppy" with a relatively small amount of parts. Most frequently SD cards instead of diskettes are used as storage media for this alternative solution.

• SD2IEC, µIEC - small, compatible with some fast loaders, cheap
• 1541-III
• 1541 Ultimate - all-round solution, pretty good emulation of the VIC-1541, relatively expensive
• IEC-ATA V2

[edit] Additional disk drives by Commodore

[edit] With IEEE-488 connector - for PET- and CBM Computers

• CBM2020
• CBM2031/SL/LP
• CBM2040
• CBM2081
• CBM3040
• CBM4031/HP/LP
• CBM4040
• CBM8050
• CBM8061
• CBM8062
• CBM8250/LP
• CBM8280/LP
• CBM D9060
• CBM D9090
• SFD-1001

[edit] For Amiga Computers

• AMIGA1010
• AMIGA1011
• AMIGA1020

[edit] Third party disk drives

[edit] Amtech

• RF501C 5,25"-Floppy
• FD-148 5,25"-Floppy

[edit] Blue Chip Electronics, Inc.

• BCD/5.25 5,25"-Floppy
• BCD/3.5 3,5"-Floppy
• BCD/128 5,25"-Floppy for C128

[edit] Cardco, Inc

• SKAI-64 / FSD-1 5,25"-Floppy
• CSD-1 DiskDrive / carddrive CSD-1 5,25"-Floppy

[edit] CMD

• FD-2000 3,5"-Floppy with 1600 KBytes storage capacity
• FD-2000 Dual two 3,5"-Floppy with 1600 KBytes storage capacity
• FD-4000 3,5"-Floppy with 3200 KBytes storage capacity

[edit] Elite

• DS-64 5,25"-Floppy for C64

[edit] Tussy Computer Products

• Swan SW41 5,25"-Floppy
• Swan SW71 5,25"-Floppy

[edit] Blue Chip Electronics, Inc.

• BCD/5.25 / RF 501 C 5,25"-Floppy
• BCD/3.5 3,5"-Floppy
• BCD/128 5,25"-Floppy for C128

[edit] HBH Sales Company

• Clone II

[edit] World Disk Drives

• CXT-1281 5,25"-Floppy for C128

[edit] The Comtel Group, Inc.

• Enhancer 2000 5,25"-Floppy for C64

[edit] Indus Systems

• Indus GT 5,25"-Floppy for C64

[edit] MSD Systems, Inc.

• SD1 / Super Disk Drive 5,25"-Floppy for C64 with serial Bus and parallel port
• SD2 5,25"-Dual-Floppy for C64 with serial Bus and parallel port

[edit] Oceanic Electronics Group

• OC-118N / Excelerator+Plus / FSD-2 5,25"-Floppy for C64
• OC-168 5,25"-Floppy for C64

[edit] REX

• REX 9900 / Floppy 9900 / Master-41 5,25"-Floppy for C64, Oceanic drive

[edit] Rossmöller

• Ross-Drive 5,25"-Floppy with parallel interface and own OS, inkompatibel, Oceanic drive

[edit] Links

• Commodore disk drive specifications (ripped off the Complete Commodore Inner Space Anthology)
• Beyond the 1541 - Mass Storage For The 64 And 128
• Overview of disk drives at Commodore Info Page
• Pictures of a few disk drives for the C64 at hardware64.com