Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:12:09 +0100 Message-ID: <667567a3-4f5a-91e1-938c-9ddc9483864a@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 1/4/19 11:51 AM, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 11:49 AM Gerrit Heitsch
> <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/4/19 10:47 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. Never had a diskette, which made you open the drive and clean the heads afterward? ;-)
>>
>> I had that a lot when imagine old disks... Really learned to love my
>> Oceanic 168 drive I use for this purpose.
> 
> What's better on the Oceanic? I'm curious.

The drive mechanism they used is direct drive (no belt to worry about), 
looks more sturdy, it is more compact than a 1541 or even 1541-II, uses 
a metal case and is a full TTL implementation, meaning no custom chips. 
Runs perfectly with an original 1541-II ROM and uses the same PSU 
connector as the 1541-II, you can use the same PSU (5V/700mA-1A and 
12V/500mA) for both.

I can supply fotos if you want.

  Gerrit