Dale Mentzer wrote:
>Commodore had a 1 meg floppy drive that used the
>standard double density 5 1/4" floppy. IIRC, it
>was called the FSD 1000. About the only users of
>it were BBS sysops running their systems on the
>C64 or 128.
Commodore had another version called the 8250, which was an external dual
drive. TWO megs of space! In the Commodore world, where even a long BASIC
program might be 38K, 2 meg was a LOT.
Those drives were actually made for Commodore's PET/CBM line of computers,
with IEEE-488 parallel interfaces. For an ordinary C64 user to attach one,
he had to buy a special IEEE-488 interface, on top of buying the pricey
drive. And most C64 software expected unit 8 and possibly 9 as a drive, not
unit 8, drive 0 and drive 1, as the dual drives were set up. So, as you
say, unless a user really needed the space for a BBS or something, it was
much cheaper and less hassle to buy ordinary C= serial drives for a VIC, 64
or 128 system.
