Posted By
Csabo
on 2010-04-28
10:07:52
|  Re: 1581 quiz
[Citation needed] Wow, so many unverified claims!
Key sentence from the above referenced Hungarian article: "A most 75 éves, súlyosan beteg Jánosi hivatásos feltalálónak tartja magát." "The 75 year old Jánosi, who is now seriously ill, considers himself to be the official inventor." (Emphasis mine.) They link to Wikipedia, and indeed he has an article, but it's not translated to any other language or contain any citations. The article mentions 1974, but the English Wikipedia page on floppy disks say it was invented at IBM in 1971 -- and has citations to back it up. This means that SVS' claim is very likely to be invalid (since the year is wrong) 
Also, according to the Secret Weapons of Commodore site (Google it), the 1561 did exist and was intended for the Commodore LCD, but was never released. That's only one site though, but to me they have credibility since they recearched this topic extensively, so siz's guess about the rename is also likely to be wrong.
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