Commodore 1541‑II Diskdrive
The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive created by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The most famous floppy disk drive for the C64.
Commodore 1541‑II Diskdrive
The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive created by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The most famous floppy disk drive for the C64.
The 1541 is a single sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼ "floppies.
The disk drive uses group coded recording (GCR) and contains a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, doubling as a disk controller and on-board disk operating system (DOS) processor. The number of sectors per track varies from 17 to 21 (an early implementation of zone bit recording). The drive's built-in disk operating system is CBM DOS 2.6.
