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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 16:06:30 2001

There once was an outfit here in Denver that made their fortune with an adapter
from the COMMODORE HPIB to the common Centronics printer port as used on the
EPSON/OKIDATA cheapies used in the early '80's. I remember the guy who did it
shortly after he got his first Porsche ... <sigh> I wish I'd thought of that!

Apparently Commodore thought a lot of the HPIB.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Commodore 8050M disk drive. What's it for?


> 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.
>
> And any Commodore with an IEEE-488 interface, even the 64
> >if you happen to have an IEEE interface cartridge.
>
> Hmmm. that's interesting. I didn't know about that.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
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