8250 LP Double disk drive for the commodore 64

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jul 4 00:14:00 2003

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 ghldbrd_at_ccp.com wrote:

> I sent my drive to a factory authorized tech who wanted >$150 to repair
> the drive, and new drives were about $200 and dropping. I took a wild
> guess at the cable broken from the multiple head travels, and ordered one
> ($30~) from Grapevine in NY. I replaced the head, did a quick alignment
> and it is still working to this day, 25 years later. I bought a second
                                       ^^^^^^^^

That can't be right. The Commodore 64 is only 20 years old this year.

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