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RandyT:

--- Quote from: creatine28 on June 18, 2010, 01:28:54 pm ---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?

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Well, if you do a search for someone selling one, you come up dry.  They were talking about how rare and difficult they were to find back in '05.

The collectors have scooped them up by now.  You may get lucky and find someone who inherited a C64 BBS system and doesn't know what it is, but I think you could get old waiting for that to happen.

The seller obviously knows what he has, as indicated by his "Please, Serious offers only" statement.  All you can do is make an offer for a little less than what you are willing to pay and see if you get a response.

RandyT

ark_ader:
I wouldn't bother - buy this instead:

Havok:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 18, 2010, 03:26:15 pm ---I wouldn't bother - buy this instead:



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So, you're saying to buy nothing?

If anything, he should be buying this!

FrizzleFried:
Been a long time since I seen one of those.  I used to run a warez BBS off 2 of those and 2 1541's... 1200 baud FTW!

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: creatine28 on June 18, 2010, 01:28:54 pm ---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.

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This isn't entirely true.  When the SFD-1001 drive hit the scene there were 5, 10, 20,  even 40 MB hard drives.  Hell,  you could spend $800 and get a Lt. Kernal hard drive for the Commodore 64 even...20MB.

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