Tag: IEEE-488

CBM 8050 Drive Repair & Restoration

Recently I bought a CBM 8050 dual floppy drive from eBay. It came at a good price, but it was listed as “untested. for spares […]

In the first update to my PIEEE-488 PET dual drive project I take the breadboard design from part 1 and convert it into a PCB. […]

The PIEEE-488 is a Raspberry PI hat designed to emulate the old style dual floppy drives for the Commodore PET. At least that’s the idea. […]

Last time we powered on the SFD 1001 floppy drive and discovered that it didn’t work. At least it did work a little bit – […]

In this video we continue the floppy drive repair that we started last week. The SFD 1001 is an interesting drive. It was one of […]

The Commodore SFD 1001 floppy disk drive is an interesting beast. It looks like a 1541, but it’s not. To start with, it’s an IEEE-488 […]