Exploring My Commodore IEEE-488 Disk Drive Collection

Take a look at (and listen to) my various parallel IEEE-488 Commodore floppy disk drives, including the 4040, 8050, 2031LP, and SFD 1001, hooked up to my PET 4032 computer. We'll open a brand new box of disks, format them, and learn about the various capacities and compatibilities of the drives along with many related diversions. Become a patron:   / 8bitshowandtell   One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell Links: PageTable article about IEEE and IEC: https://pagetable.com/?p=1023 HD Floppies on a 1541:    • High Density Floppy Disks on Commodore 1541?   IEEE Adapter for PET: http://store.go4retro.com/ieee-cable-... Index: 0:00 Family Photo: all my C= Floppy Disk Drives 1:10 The two interfaces: Parallel IEEE-488 and Serial IEC - as seen on the MSD SD-2 3:45 Commodore's IEEE-488 cables 4:48 PET 4032, and opening a new box of DSDD 5.25" disks 5:56 Formatting a disk in the CBM Model 4040 disk drive 7:41 Reading the command channel - Everything's OK 9:05 CBM DOS V2 - the DOS is in the drive, not in the PET 9:44 Labelling a disk! 10:20 CBM Model 8050 - 520K per disk side, NOT high-density! 13:09 Formatting with the HEADER command 14:12 CATALOG and how the 1541 was a regression due to $$ 15:01 Inside the 4040 - two processors including a 6504! 16:48 Inside the 8050 - DUAL 6502s 17:47 The SFD 1001 20:13 4133 blocks free: Successfully formatting a SFD 1001 disk 21:48 Commodore 2031 and 2031LP 22:43 Stacking Drives: The TPUG Locker 23:14 4040 -𖼿 2031LP -𖼿 1541 lineage 24:25 Thank you to my patrons:   / 8bitshowandtell   24:45 I'll cover the IEC (serial) drives such as the 1541 in another episode