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Commodore PET 8050 FDD

Resources

Wiki
User Manual
Service Manual
CBM Drive Notes

8050 is a single sided drive, please compare to 8250, which is double sided and to the low profile 8250LP drive.

Internals

Drive Units

These are Micropolis 1006-2 Disk Storage Modules. They have single head. 8250 drives had an upgraded drive units Micropolis 1006-IV with two heads for double sided disk access.

Power Supply

Analog Board

Digital Board

Reassembly

Some Dirt

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