Fwd: Re: 8250 LP Double disk drive for the commodore 64

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jul 2 20:25:01 2003

--- Lance S <semlj001_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> The reason that I'm looking for it is that my father has been using his
> 8250 to run some software and his has broken. He's had a technichian
> look at it and some parts are needed. It would be easier to buy another.

What parts? Drives? Power Supply? Main board? The main board is
about the only thing that really is hard to replace.

I don't know what specific disk drives shipped with the 8250LP, but if
it's the drives themselves, it's probably possible to find an equivalent.

> As I understand, 1541 drives read / write in a different format to the
> 8250 drives.

You do have the nub of it. Completely incompatible.

> The 8250 is able to write 1Mb to each disk which I don't think
> the 1541 can do.

The 1541 has half the tracks and half the heads (and less than 25%
total space per diskette)

Good luck in your search. All of my PET hardware is older than that.
I have never even seen one up close, but they are out there.

-ethan
Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 20:25:01 BST