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From: RobertB on 27 Apr 2010 13:26
On Apr 27, 4:02 am, Rudolf Harras <rudi...(a)temporaryforwarding.com>
wrote:

> Hmm, so what does that mean. You can't get any 5 1/4" anymore?

There are plenty at Athana. Go to

http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html

Several of our FCUG members have 1581 3 1/2" drives.
In fact, at last Sunday's SCCAN meeting, I dropped off
a 1581 to a person there.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org
From: Sean Huxter on 27 Apr 2010 18:16
You are a blind man feeling the elephant's knee claiming it has no tusks.

Regardless of whether YOU had one, they were important to ME. I also had a
1351a mouse. Not many of those were made either, but they made my work on my
computer easy.

Hell, I wrote a whole fantasy novel, hundreds of pages, on my C128, on my
1581 3.5" floppy using my 1351a mouse.

Sean.

"Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message
news:4bd70c0e$0$27802$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
> Sean Huxter wrote:
>> "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message
>> news:4bd64ff2$0$27789$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>>> Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>>> The floppy was probably the most used data storage device for
>>>> Commodore computers, especially the C64. Swapped with friends at
>>>> school with the newest games on back then...
>>>>
>>>
>>> The 3.5" floppy didn't play a part in the C64's success and the 5.25"
>>> format has been dead for years already.
>>>
>>
>> Most of my most significant work on the C64/128 was done on 3.5"
>> floppy. I had a 1581 and GEOS which used it very nicely. All of my
>> development work was done on it.
>>
>> It is also one of the easier formats to move data to and from a PC
>> emulator as PC floppy drives can be made to read and write the 3.5"
>> 1581 format.
>
> Yeah, but if 5.25" based drive sales (154x/1571) are the measure of
> success then the 3.5" C= drives don't even rate.
>
> I've dealt with C= equipment for many years and despite the huge
> popularity of the C64 and the 154x drives I have never even come across a
> single 3.5" C= floppy drive or known anyone to own one.
>
> That's my point.
>


From: Brandon Staggs on 27 Apr 2010 20:57
"Clocky" wrote on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:10:40 +0800:

> I've dealt with C= equipment for many years and despite the huge popularity
> of the C64 and the 154x drives I have never even come across a single 3.5"
> C= floppy drive or known anyone to own one.

I was very envious of my friends who had them when I was a teen. And
I have a 1581 now. Also, those devices were well-advertised in
Commodore magazines.

--
-Brandon
http://www.brandonstaggs.com/c64.html
From: Andreas Kohlbach on 27 Apr 2010 21:26
Clocky wrote on 26. April 2010:
>
> Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> The floppy was probably the most used data storage device for
>> Commodore computers, especially the C64. Swapped with friends at
>> school with the newest games on back then...
>>
>
> The 3.5" floppy didn't play a part in the C64's success and the 5.25" format
> has been dead for years already.

Yes, but the article says all floppy production is ended by 2011. And the
5.25" played a big part in my and other's C64 lives back then.

>> http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/sony-shutting-down-japanese-floppy-disk-sales-by-march-2011-kil
>
> Have Mitsumi, TEAC, Panasonic and Samsung etc all stopped production?

Well SONY does the majority of floppies. So if they stop I guess the
others will follow.
--
Andreas
My Commodore 64 classic game music page at
http://www.ankman.de/commodore-64-sid-music/
From: Charles Richmond on 27 Apr 2010 23:02
Sean Huxter wrote:
> "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message
> news:4bd70c0e$0$27802$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>> Sean Huxter wrote:
>>> "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4bd64ff2$0$27789$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
>>>> Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>>>> The floppy was probably the most used data storage device for
>>>>> Commodore computers, especially the C64. Swapped with friends at
>>>>> school with the newest games on back then...
>>>>>
>>>> The 3.5" floppy didn't play a part in the C64's success and the 5.25"
>>>> format has been dead for years already.
>>>>
>>> Most of my most significant work on the C64/128 was done on 3.5"
>>> floppy. I had a 1581 and GEOS which used it very nicely. All of my
>>> development work was done on it.
>>>
>>> It is also one of the easier formats to move data to and from a PC
>>> emulator as PC floppy drives can be made to read and write the 3.5"
>>> 1581 format.
>> Yeah, but if 5.25" based drive sales (154x/1571) are the measure of
>> success then the 3.5" C= drives don't even rate.
>>
>> I've dealt with C= equipment for many years and despite the huge
>> popularity of the C64 and the 154x drives I have never even come across a
>> single 3.5" C= floppy drive or known anyone to own one.
>>
>> That's my point.
>>
>
> You are a blind man feeling the elephant's knee claiming it has no tusks.
>
> Regardless of whether YOU had one, they were important to ME. I also had a
> 1351a mouse. Not many of those were made either, but they made my work on my
> computer easy.
>
> Hell, I wrote a whole fantasy novel, hundreds of pages, on my C128, on my
> 1581 3.5" floppy using my 1351a mouse.
>

Although I had a couple of 1541's, I *never* got to use a 1581.
Did the 1581 require double-sided, double-density disks??? I
wonder what part of the Sony production is made up of these DS/DD
disks??? The HD floppies are *not* reliable if used as a DS/DD...


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