Commodore 1571

The Commodore 1571 was arguably Commodore's finest 5_1/4" disk drive, having the ability to use double-sided floppy disks without the need to remove them and turn them over as in the previous Commodore drives on which it was based (Commodore 1541, Commodore 1570).

The 1571 was identical to the 1570, right down to the external power pack and data burst-mode, except of course the double-sided ability.

A disk formatted for/with the 1571 could therefore hold 1328 256-byte blocks of data. A fundamental flaw, however was the fact that the number of files on a disk was still limited to 144, like the 1541.

See Also: Commodore 1581