• Commodore 5 1/4 single drive floppy disk. VIC 1541 - front
    Commodore 5 1/4 single drive floppy disk. VIC 1541 - front
Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk VIC 1541
Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk VIC 1541

Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk VIC 1541

physical object
Identifier
2024.31.11
Description
The Commodore Single Drive Floppy Disk was an essential accessory for Commodore computers like the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 in the 1980s. This external device used 5.25-inch floppy disks to store up to 170 kilobytes of data each. It allowed users to save and access programs, documents, and games, playing a crucial role in early personal computing for data management and software storage.
Related Terms
memory storage devices (describes)
Floppy disks (describes)
External links
Wikipedia - Commodore 1541
Related people
Angus Rogerson (was donor of)
Lawrence Folland (is documentarian of)
Guilianna Schlueter (is documentarian of)