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From: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: SFD query (WAS :Relative file bugs!!!)
Message-ID: <1682@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 12:48:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1682
Posted: Thu Aug 14 12:48:00 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Aug-86 05:28:47 EDT
References: <860@usl.UUCP> <233@cs1.UUCP> <1986Aug13.152631.2597@utcs.uucp>
Reply-To: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1986Aug13.152631.2597@utcs.uucp> adam@utcs.UUCP (Adam R. Iles) writes:
>
>In article <233@cs1.UUCP> cbcscmst@cs1.UUCP (Michael Steven Temkin) writes:
>>I have a question for anyone out there who can answer it,
>>listen up Commodore.  A long time ago there was an advertisement in some
>>magazines about the SFD-1001 by Commodore, I never saw it
>>in stores, nor have I heard anything since.  Does this drive
>>still (if ever) exist, where can I find one, how much
>>are they, and are they 1541 compatible?
>>The above referenced article mentioned it and I would appreciate some help.
>
>
>     The SFD-1001 was never 1541 compatible and came with a
>IEEE-488 bus (for use with the PET/CBM seies) nessesitatingnthe use of
>an IEEE adaptor for the 64.  For some reason (not wanting
>to bother with PET/CBM anymore) commodore cancelled these drives
>before they got onto the market.
>

	The SFD-100i (note: one-hundred-'eye') was not introduced as the C64
was not introduced with an IEEE interface. The PET series before that had
IEEE capability.

	It will never be in stores, and, in the US, it is being (has been?)
sold by Progressive Peripherals (in Denver, I believe). I borrowed one
from a friend and used it with a Batteries Included IEEE interface, and it
appeared to work as advertised. Double-sided, double-density with a
formatted capacity of just over one megabyte.

	There are no commercial programs available in that format, so its
use is limited pretty much to data storage or basic program storage. It
would be a good peripheral for a database manager with a large database.

					Jere M. Marrs
					Tektronix, Inc.
					tektronix!tekgvs!jerem