[Coco] Commodore 64. 1541 disk drive

[Scott Wendt]

It also basically contained an entire computer in the drive so that would have driven up the cost for the drive.

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:49:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Commodore 64. 1541 disk drive

You are right about that.  The C64 floppy drive had a transfer rate that
was actually slower than that achievable with CoCo CASSETTES!  (Though of
course having direct access to a file via a directory is far superior to
using cassette.)

Art


On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Henry Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I would definitely have preferred tandy drives. But the price was right.
> And in cnd$ that was actually $3 usd
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> That's OS-9! With a *hyphen*, you Unbeliever!!!! ;-)
>
> And besides, I've always heard the 1541 (and the C64 floppy drive
> interface in general) described as painfully slow. So there.
>
>
> > On Dec 13, 2016, at 19:41, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > hehe, I could probably whip you up an adapter :-)
> >
> > But, you could only read/write Commodore formatted disks :-)
> >
> > Still, wouldn't that be a weird thing to see...
> >
> > Not to get into a flame war, but it is a shame the Tandy Coco machines
> did not have an intelligent drive like the 1541.  That foresight from Chuck
> Peddle allows the drive medium and format to be largely independent of the
> machine.  Adding multi-gigabyte drives to the CBM platform is trivial
> compared to the sector/offset/etc. work and DOS changes needed on the Coco
> platform.
> >
> > I know, I know, the Coco has the 6809, and OS/9, I'll go away now.
> >
> > Jim
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