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The Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use double-sided, double-density (DS/DD) floppy disks, storing a total of 360 kB per floppy. It also implemented a "burst mode" that improved transfer speeds, helping address the very slow performance of previous Commodore drives.
Manufacturer Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
Type Floppy drive
Release date 1985; 40 years ago
Introductory price US$300 (1985) equivalent to $900 in 2024
Discontinued 1993; 32 years ago
Media 5¼" floppy disk DS DD using GCR or MFM
Operating system CBM DOS 3.0 (128D uses v3.1)
CPU MOS 6502 @ 2 MHz, WD1770
Memory 2 kB RAM 32 kB ROM
Storage 350-410 kB (GCR and MFM)
Connectivity Commodore proprietary serial IEEE-488 5200 bytes/s
Backward compatibility Commodore 64, Commodore 128
Predecessor Commodore 1570
Successor Commodore 158Note Type
Object Specific InformationNote
This item is fully functional.
