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I had (probably still at my parent's house) a Commodore cassette deck, 2 1541s and a 1571. All modded of course. I remember using the cassette deck but it was

by Osiris 5y ago

I had (probably still at my parent's house) a Commodore cassette deck, 2 1541s and a 1571. All modded of course. I remember using the cassette deck but it was definitely a stop gap to a real disk drive.

anyfoo 5y ago
Ah, I was too young for multiple drives. While my parents probably saw the futility of not having a disk drive at all, shelling out the hundreds of DM for a second one was likely too much. And with no own money I put up with what I had. I nowadays suspect that the grease in my then rather old 1541 must have hardened, because it needed the occasional hard slap on its case to continue loading, it would "hang" in the middle of a disk access until you did that.