Posted By
Hans
on 2012-05-20
14:36:28
|  Re: [Epay] Complete Plus/4 system on sale - for UK residents only
MIK,
...I have a 1541 & a 1541 Mk2... Sorted on the disc front and happy with that. If I had the space yeah I would love a 1551 just as a novelty as I have never owned the beast!....
I tried to figure whether there's a complete picture of the 1551 but couldn't find one. The complete picture of a 1551 with its reverse side I didn't find.
Well, it's a nice machine, the 1551... I was always happy with its performance - quite reliable and quite fast.
What all the nice photos on any Commodore leaflet, however, kept discreet was the awesome cabling. That's a real mess!
The 1551 expansion port plug is horrible - takes as much space as a cartridge, plus the cable. Those thick PVC cables are really stiff and never behave as you want them to behave.
Cascading of two or more 1551 does mean that you have to plug they to each other: No. 10 goes into No. 9, and No 9 into No. 8, andsoforth...
My desk in the old days was 3 spare metres, and the space was really occupied...
Reg's,
Hans.
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