storage The best know
floppy disk drive for the
Commodore64. The 1541 was a single sided 160 Kb drive but converting to
code for it to vibrate the head at different frequencies to
play tunes.
The transfer rate was about 300 bytes per second. The 1541
protocol. Some third-party speed-ups could transfer about 4
kilobytes per second over the interface, and some "fast
loaders" managed up to 10 kbps.
(2000-03-07)