Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:22:01 +0100
Message-Id: <7792DB1B-4BE8-48A9-84D3-2AEDD51FDD3C@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2019-01-04, at 12:12, Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
> 
>>> 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),

Direct drive was also used in 1541-IIs (Sankyo mechs for example) but _think_ I recall a belt driven mech in an "Oceanic" (various names were used for this product, although "Oceanic" is probably the most known one) type of drive too.

> 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.

Do you remember how the analogue section was solved there? All discrete or something like in 1541-II?

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