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What does something like this go for?
creatine28:
I'm interested in buying this Commodore SFD1001 drive I found on Craigslist, but Im not sure what something like this goes for, or is even worth. So I dont know what a good offer would be. Can anybody help?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sys/1797139874.html
orchidius:
Idk, but full commodore systems including the little printer and diskdrives go for arround 50€ here in Belgium... Won't be worth a whole bunch I guess
RandyT:
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Google is your friend.......
It looks like a 1541, but it's not. There are probably only a couple hundred of these units left in the world. One guy I found said he paid over $80 just for the proper cable to run one.
I think it's one of those "if you have to ask how much, you don't know what it is and you can't afford it" situations.
RandyT
creatine28:
I did a search in Google and I was able to come up with this link, saying that its rare and there's probably only a few hundred of these drives left in the world. Not sure how accurate that is?
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/hardware/hardware.htm
Per the site above:
The Amazing SFD 1001
What is so unusual about this drive, you ask? Well simply put, this drive allows you to store a full meg of data on regular single density disks!! Pretty amazing when you consider when these drives were made!! (early 1980s.) There were hard drives at this time with 1 meg capacities and this drive manages to do it on cheap single density disks!! We can only put 1.44MB on High Density floppies even today (2002). There are probably only a few hundred of these left in the world.
Courtesy of Paul Gable.
The SFD-1001 which was sold mostly through liquidators was an IEEE-488 based drive. Back in the days when these were being sold I heard it said that SFD stood for 'Super Fast Drive' because it was parallel.
At the time when 1541's reigned, C= drive speed was incredibly slow.
Courtesy of Daniel Bingamon
The SFD1001 works on C64/128 & possibly the PET.Australia's Trevor Roydhouse indicated that he paid $80 just for the cable required to get it connected to a C64 and that with some mods, he got it working on a VIC!
creatine28:
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--- Quote from: orchidius on June 18, 2010, 12:20:32 pm ---Idk, but full commodore systems including the little printer and diskdrives go for arround 50€ here in Belgium... Won't be worth a whole bunch I guess
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Google is your friend.......
It looks like a 1541, but it's not. There are probably only a couple hundred of these units left in the world. One guy I found said he paid over $80 just for the proper cable to run one.
I think it's one of those "if you have to ask how much, you don't know what it is and you can't afford it" situations.
RandyT
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Yeah you're probably right, since I cant find very much info on this drive, it must be pretty rare and expensive. I totally remember this drive back in my old c-64 days, I remember it was the drive that all the BBS's used since it held 1 whole meg of data on a floppy. hahahaha.