Commodore 1572

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The Commodore 1572 was a dual floppy disk drive designed by Commodore. It reached the prototype stage, and was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1985, but was never released to the public. One reason it was never released was that the code of the 1572 had compatibility problems.

[edit] Technical aspects

The Commodore 1572 was a dual version of the Commodore 1571 single disk drive. It had four times as much RAM as the 1571, and twice as much ROM. The 1572 allowed for fast disk backups, much like the old 4040, 8050, and 8250 dual drives.

[edit] References

• Secret Weapons of Commodore: The Disk Drives
• Beyond The 1541: Mass Storage for the 64 and 128

[edit] External links

• A photo of the 1572 dual drive, with a 1571 single drive shown for comparison
• The 1572 drive as shown on the Commodore Kuriositäten page (German)

Floppy disk drives for Commodore 8-bit systems
8" IEEE:	8020
5¼" IEEE:	2031 • 2040 • 3040 • 4031 • 4040 • 8050 • 8250 • SFD-1001
5¼" serial:	1540 • 1541 • 1551 • 1570 • 1571 • 1572 • MSD SD
3½" serial:	1581 • CMD FD