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

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 15:37:02 2001

On Apr 24, 19:24, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > At 07:22 AM 4/24/01 -0700, Cameron wrote:
> > >> 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?
> > >
> > >PETs, of course!
> >
> > Any PET? I have an 8032 in DEEP storage.
>
> I use an 8050 on my 8032SK, and it works fine. The 8032SK is an 8032
> logic board in a plastic case with a separate keyboard. So as far as I
> know, the 8050 will work with the normal 8032 as well.

I can confirm that it does (well, mine does). Any PET with Revision 3 or
later ROMs does.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

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