Commodore 1541 floppy drive

Commodore 1541 floppy drive

It is a 5 inch single-sided floppy drive introduced by Commodore company in 1982. It is specially designed for C64 and is also compatible with VIC-20 and other models. The drive uses a proprietary serial IEEE-488 interface and has a slow data transfer speed of about 300 bytes per second. The design has undergone several improvements, including the 1541C introduced in 1986 and the 1541-II in 1988. Using an external power supply, the volume is smaller and the operation is cooler. Despite its slow speed and reliability problems, its low price made it the most popular Commodore64 floppy drive of the time.
Commodore Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive

Commodore Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive

Commodore was a personal computer company that was at the same time as Apple and had created a series of miracles. The Commodore 64, launched by Commodore in 1982, became the best-selling single computer model in the Guinness World Records. The Commodore 1541 is a floppy disk drive used in conjunction with household 8-bit machines such as the Commodore 64, which is considered one of the best computer design works.