Floppy
The term floppy is most frequent used as a short form of floppy disk drive, less often as the short form of floppy disk.
Disk drives for the C64/VC20/C128/C16[edit | edit source]
Commodore 1541
Commodore 1541-II
Commodore 1541 c
SD2IEC 1.2
The standard disk drive for the C64 is the 1541, but the 1570, 1571, 1581 and the SFC-1002 as well run with a C64. You can also connect drives equipped with an IEEE-488 (GPIB) port, e.g. the SFD-1001, via the cartridge port and an IEEE-488 interface cartridge.
The VC-20 standard drive is the VIC-1540 which can only be used with this computer. For the C128 it is the 1570/71. The C16/116 or the Plus/4 use the 1551, so to speak a VC-1541 with parallel port.
Commodore disk drives can be connected with an adapter cable (see X1541) to a PC.
New Hardware
Microcontrollers and FPGAs are so cheap and fast nowadays that it is possible to build an "alternative floppy" with a relatively small amount of parts. Most frequently SD cards instead of diskettes are used as storage media for this alternative solution.
- SD2IEC, µIEC - small, compatible with some fast loaders, cheap
- 1541-III
- 1541 Ultimate - all-round solution, pretty good emulation of the 1541, relatively expensive
- Pi1541 - 1541 emulation using a Raspberry Pi
- IEC-ATA V2
Additional disk drives by Commodore[edit | edit source]
With IEEE-488 connector - for PET- and CBM Computers[edit | edit source]
- CBM 2020
- CBM 2031/SL/LP
- CBM 2040
- CBM 2081
- CBM 3040
- CBM 4031/HP/LP
- CBM 4040
- CBM 8050
- CBM 8061
- CBM 8062
- CBM 8250/LP
- CBM 8280/LP
- CBM D9060
- CBM D9090
- SFD-1001
For Amiga Computers[edit | edit source]
Third party disk drives[edit | edit source]
Amtech[edit | edit source]
Blue Chip Electronics, Inc.[edit | edit source]
Cardco, Inc[edit | edit source]
- SKAI-64 / FSD-1 5,25"-Floppy
- CSD-1 DiskDrive / carddrive CSD-1 5,25"-Floppy
CMD[edit | edit source]
- FD-2000 3,5"-Floppy with 1600 KBytes storage capacity
- FD-2000 Dual two 3,5"-Floppy with 1600 KBytes storage capacity
- FD-4000 3,5"-Floppy with 3200 KBytes storage capacity
Elite[edit | edit source]
- DS-64 5,25"-Floppy for C64
Tussy Computer Products[edit | edit source]
Blue Chip Electronics, Inc.[edit | edit source]
HBH Sales Company[edit | edit source]
World Disk Drives[edit | edit source]
- CXT-1281 5,25"-Floppy for C128
The Comtel Group, Inc.[edit | edit source]
- Enhancer 2000 5,25"-Floppy for C64
Indus Systems[edit | edit source]
- Indus GT 5,25"-Floppy for C64
MSD Systems, Inc.[edit | edit source]
- SD1 / Super Disk Drive 5,25"-Floppy for C64 with serial Bus and parallel port
- SD2 5,25"-Dual-Floppy for C64 with serial Bus and parallel port
Oceanic Electronics Group[edit | edit source]
REX[edit | edit source]
- REX 9900 / Floppy 9900 / Master-41 5,25"-Floppy for C64, Oceanic drive
Rossmöller[edit | edit source]
- Ross-Drive 5,25"-Floppy with parallel interface and own OS, inkompatibel, Oceanic drive
