Commodore 1571
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The Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use double-sided, double-density floppy
Commodore 1571 floppy drive
Commodore 128
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The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, is the last 8-bit home computer that was commercially released by Commodore Business Machines. Introduced in January 1985 at the CES in Las Vegas, it appeare
Commodore 1571
…in terms of storage, but limited it to only reading and writing disks from other Commodore machines. The 1571 was designed to partner with the new Commodore 128 (C128), which introduced support for CP/M. Adding double-density MFM encoding allowed the drive to read and write contemporary CP/M disks (and many…
Commodore 128
C128 main board
The back of the Commodore 128
Using CP/M mode requires use of a boot diskette. The diskette was included with the computer, which did not include a disk drive.