Posted By
MMS
on 2015-12-24
09:08:01
 |  Re: Interesting ebay auctions
An IEE488 based CBM 8250 dual drive is on sale on Hungarian ebay, Vatera.
http://szamitastechnika.vatera.hu/pc_asztali_szamitogep/retro_szamitogep_kiegeszito/commodore/commodore_cbm_8250_dual_drive_floppy_disk_2173702160.html
A real heavy brick of iron. As far as I know, it can use 1MB per disc as the SFD1001, just it has two drives.
For a long time it was told it will not work, but few days ago I received (though still untested) the IEE2IEC cable that makes possible to connect such a rare, high capacity drive to Plus/4 or C16. Test will come soon, unfortunately I am missing the Joystick adapter for the 5V source for microcontroller, so I will test it with C64... (those bloody special DIN connectors...  )
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