Commodore 8280
The Commodore 8280 is a dual 8" floppy disk drive for Commodore International computers. It uses a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and uses the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.
| Manufacturer | Commodore Business Machines, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Type | Floppy drive |
| Media | 2 × 8" double-sided, double-density floppy disk[1] |
| Operating system | CBM DOS 3.0 |
| CPU | 2 × MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz |
| Storage | 1024 kB per disk[1] |
| Connectivity | Parallel IEEE-488[1] |
| Dimensions | 380mm / 200mm / 420mm [1] |
| Backward compatibility | PET, 4000-series, 8000-series, B128; Commodore 64, C128, VIC-20 with IEEE-488 adapter |
| Predecessor | Commodore 8061/62 |
| Successor | Commodore 8050 |
| Related articles | Commodore D9060, D9090 |
The 8280 replaced the earlier 806x series 8" drives and switched to half-height drives. Like the 8061/62 units, the 8280 supports IBM 3740 disks in addition to its native 500k group code recording (GCR) format and does not have support in the drive ROM for formatting disks or verifying them; these features were provided on a utility disk which also contained a disk copy utility for the IBM 3740 disks.
References
An 8" floppy disk, in comparison, the largest sized common removable storage medium in the last half century
- "Laufwerke - CBM 8060" [Drives - CBM 8060]. Commodore Computer Online Museum (in German). Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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