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From:Matthew Garrett
Date:10 Aug 2000 at 15:21:10
Subject:Re: A500 bits

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:09:08PM +0000, Steven wrote:

> The 1541 was the original Commodore effort, and the 1571 was a 3rd
> party job that was slimline and at least 2x faster at reading stuff
> off the drive.

The 1571 was a Commodore drive and supported reading of double sided
disks. It was the main drive for the C128, I think. The 1541 was released
in a more slimline form at around the same time as the restyled C64
appeared.



Matthew Garrett | mjg59@cam.ac.uk

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