Commodore 8060

The Commodore 8060, 8061, and 8062 are a series of 8" floppy disk drives developed by Commodore Business Machines. These disk drives use the parallel interface IEEE-488 to connect with Commodore's PET and CBM-II line of microcomputers. The 8060 is a single-disk model, while the 8061 and 8062 are both double-drive models similar to the later Commodore 8280 8" drive.

All of the models in the 8060 series use Commodore group code recording (GCR) for disk reading and writing; the later 8061 and 8062 models can also read and write IBM 3740 format disks.^[1] Each drive in the series contains two MOS 6502 microprocessors for operating the disk controllers and executing the built-in disk operating system. The built-in operating system is CBM DOS 2.7.

References

1. "The Disk Drives: SFD 1001, 1541D, 1542, 1543, 1551 (SFS 481), 1561, 1563, 1565, 1570, 1571-II, 1571CR, 1572, 1590/1591, 8060, 8061, 8062, 8280". Secret Weapons of Commodore. Retrieved 19 March 2015.

• "Laufwerke - CBM 8060" [Drives - CBM 8060]. Commodore Computer Online Museum (in German). Retrieved 19 March 2015.