RE: CBM 8060 series (8061 and 8062)

From: Hoffmann-Vetter, Martin <martinHV_at_arcor.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:54:08 +0200
Message-ID: <00cf01cc6d76$61ca05e0$6800a8c0@mhv.webmade.com>
Hello!

> The original, virtually unknown 8060 was a single drive
> that stored 750K per disk;

Does anyone have seen a 8060?

> the later 8061, 8062 and 8280 were all dual
> drives and could read IBM 3740 as well as Commodore GCR format.

Does that mean, the 8060 can't read the IBM 3740 format?

> The
> 8061 had a total capacity of 1.6MB, the 8062 3.2MB

Which drives are build in?

> and the 8280 1MB.

Okay, this drive is not so interesting, because a own it.

> The slimline-styled 8280, the final 8" in the series, was powered by
> DOS 3.0 (the same DOS used in the 9060/9090).

Yes, that's true. But my question is about the dos in the 8060 series!

> That's theonly info I was able to find :-(

Okay, who owns more information? On my photos from the 8061 the chips are dated 1980!

Regards

Martin


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