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| Manufacturer | Commodore Business Machines, Inc. |
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| 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 | ParallelIEEE-488[1] |
| Dimensions | 380mm / 200mm / 420mm[1] |
| Backward compatibility | PET, 4000-series, 8000-series,B128;Commodore 64,Commodore 128,VIC-20 with IEEE-488 adapter |
| Predecessor | Commodore 8061/62 |
| Successor | Commodore 8050 |
| Related | Commodore D9060,D9090 |
TheCommodore 8280 is a dual 8"floppy disk drive forCommodore International computers. It uses a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of theCommodore 4040, and uses the parallelIEEE-488 interface common toCommodore PET/CBM computers.
The 8280 replaced the earlier806x series 8" drives and switched to half-height drives. Like the 8061/62 units, the 8280 supportsIBM 3740 disks. However, instead of 500kgroup code recording (GCR) format used by other Commodore drives, it uses MFM as its native disk recording format, the only 8-bit Commodore drive to do so apart from the1581. Contrary to the 8061/62, the drive ROM has the capability for formatting disks and verifying them, eliminating the need for external utility disk for these operations. The manual contains also a simple BASIC listing of a program to read sectors from IBM 3470 disks.
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