Blue Chip 1541 clone

From: Christopher Phillips (shrydar_at_jaruth.com)
Date: 2005-10-11 14:39:46

I normally don't pay a huge amount of attention to the model and ROM  
cataloguing aspect of this list, but I'm in the middle of moving  
house at the moment, and was reminded that I own a curiosity that may  
be of interest to list members.

It's a 1541 clone made by Blue Chip Electronics, model BCD/5.25,  
serial number 70506403, made in Korea.  Are these familiar to anyone  
else in the list?  All I know of it's provenance is that my parents  
bought it for us kids when I was a teenager in the 1980s.  If there's  
any interest I could extract the ROMs.

A quick google shows up a photo of one from George Page's drive  
collection at http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/pictures/gpage1/ 
gpage1.html, and some arguments on comp.sys.cbm some years ago as to  
how reliable they were or were not, and not much else.  FWIW, I never  
had any problems with mine.  (it's the model with the latch on the  
right).

Cheers,
Christopher.


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