Commodore 8050M disk drive. What's it for?

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 13:47:04 2001

On Apr 24, 10:41, Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/24/2001 6:48:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> rigdonj_at_intellistar.net writes:
>
> > I just picked up a Commodore 8050M dual 5 1/4" disk drive with a
HP-IB
> > interface in a surplus place. Can anyone tell me what system(s) it's
made
> > to work with?

> It should work on any Commodore with a GPIB port. This was usually traces
> brought out to the Circuit card edge for an edge connector to connect
with.
> Edge connector on one end and GPIB on the other end.

Not *quite* any PET. It won't work with early PET 2001 series that still
have original ROMs, because there are bugs in the IEEE-488 routines
(printers work, but not much else). That's why I want a two-ROM-set
piggyback board for mine.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 13:47:04 BST

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