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Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Am
by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Amstrad bought the rights to the Spectrum, but I’d never seen them on a C64.
- sixothree 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1581#:~:text=The%20Commodore%201581%20is%20a%203%C2%BD-inch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1581#:~:text=The%2...
- Doctor_Fegg 2y agoYes, that’s 3.5in. The picture in TFA is of a _3in_ disk.
- hnlmorg 2y ago3.5” disks were extremely common. Everything from Atari STs to programmable keyboards supported them. Plus they were the standard in PCs for a very long time. What the GP saw was 3” a disk (ie half an inch smaller). Those came with a harder plastic shell and were a lot less common except for a few specific systems (like the aforementioned Amstrad 8bit micros).
- hnlmorg 2y agoThat’s a very good spot! I know a few other systems outside of Europe had 3 inch disks, for example the Nintendo Famicom Disk System. But the FDS disks were intentionally different again to those Maxwell disks. Like yourself, never seen 3” disks on the C64 before.