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Shawano, Wi. tandy and c64

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wilko13

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I kind of got into this by accident. I picked up my first old computer off the curb a few years ago, a tandy 2500XL and just recently a lady friend who's husband had just died gave me all his ols stuff. She filled a van, come to find out he used to work on them. Half torn apart computers that had been used for parts ranging from 286s to 486s. Not much worth having from those, but from among the junk there were his personal computers. Two TRS-80s models III and 4 and a commodore 64 in the box with color monitor, external 3.5 floppy and a small printer all with the commodore name on them. The old computers that I had to take got stripped down the rest of the way saving all the drives, power packs, fans and what chips that remained. I did find one graphics board from one of the newer machines that looks almost like new, an Orchid Kelvin 64-VLB. Other than that the guy picked those old machines over pretty good.
 
There are actually a few ways: The "official" way is with the 1581 drive by Commodore. This used DSDD diskettes and has a capacity of 800kB. Then there is the CMD FD-2000 and FD-4000. The FD-2000 uses HD diskettes with a capacity of 1.6MB and the (discontinued) FD-4000 uses ED diskettes which can hold up to 3.2MB.

Cheers,

80sFreak
 
Plus that in modern times, there are some DIY projects to make your own 1581 compatible (or even CMD FD compatible?) disk drive. Recently there was a big sale of instant 1581 kits, consisting of case and electronics, only missing floppy drive - Amiga style, although a PC one can be modified to be used. I bought a kit, and I've heard that possibly there will be another sale in a short while.
 
Yes, it is a 1581 floppy and it cleaned up real nice. 1802 color monitor and 1520 printer, the paper holder is missing and would need a clean up of the mechanical parts. In the box I found a Phoenix cps-10 power supply and a FSD-1 5.25 external floppy, both look like new. Other than some dust and fingerprints, the whole machine looks like new. Time to put it together and see if it works as good as it looks.
 
carlsson said:
Plus that in modern times, there are some DIY projects to make your own 1581 compatible (or even CMD FD compatible?) disk drive. Recently there was a big sale of instant 1581 kits, consisting of case and electronics, only missing floppy drive - Amiga style, although a PC one can be modified to be used. I bought a kit, and I've heard that possibly there will be another sale in a short while.
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If you think of it, let us (or just me ;-) ) know about that, as I'd like to get one.
 
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