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    The Commodore 8050, Commodore 8250, and Commodore SFD-1001 are 5¼-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Commodore International, primarily for its 8-bit...
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    mechanicals Commodore 8050 dual disk drive (500 KB single-sided 5.25-inch format) Commodore 8075 plotter, with Watanabe mechanicals Commodore 8060 single...
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  • sustaining the 96 TPI formatting of quad density, in drives such as the Commodore 8050. Disks were available in both single and double sided forms, with double...
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    The Commodore 4040 is the replacement for the previous models 2040 (U.S.) and 3040 (Europe). It's a dual-drive 5¼" floppy disk subsystem for Commodore Business...
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    VIC-20 and C64. The small amount of software Commodore developed for the B-series was distributed on 500k 8050 format disks rather than the 170k 4040/1541...
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  • Spiro (2010-03-05). "Commodore GCR "mysteries"". Archived from the original on 2014-08-05. "GCR ROM en-/decoder in Commodore 8050 and 8250 disk drives"...
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    quad-density drives, which were incompatible with 96 tpi models. The Commodore 8050 and 8250 are rare instances of drives that used 375 kbit/s GCR code...
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    The Commodore 64 home computer used various external peripherals. Due to the backwards compatibility of the Commodore 128, most peripherals would also...
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    were modified versions of the DOS contained in earlier Commodore PET dual drives such as the 8050. This created a "phantom drive 1:" on single-drive systems...
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    The Commodore 8280 is a dual 8" floppy disk drive for Commodore International computers. It uses a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of...
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