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Subject: Re: New Commodore Drives
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Date: Sat, 8-Sep-84 23:26:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  8 23:26:07 1984
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According to Commodore, the 1542 disk drive will have a better drive motor than
the 1541 and use an electronic rather than mechanical means of stopping the head
when it reaches the end of its throw (no more head-banging when you format a new
disk or run copy-protected software, so in theory less likelihood of the head
getting out of alignment).
Otherwise, aside from a different color case, the 1542 is supposed to be identical to the 1541. When asked whether the save-and-replace bug had been fixed, a Commodore engineer simply shrugged.
Another drive, I think the name is SFS 481, is supposed to run almost five times as fast as the 1541, but it will work only on the new Plus/4 computer.



James Calloway
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