Commodore 8280

The Commodore 8280 were dual unit 8" floppy disk drives for Commodore International computers. They used a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and used the parallel IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.

The 8280 replaced the early 806x series 8" drives and switched to half-height drives. Like the 8061/62, the 8280 supports IBM 3740 disks in addition to its native 500k GCR format and does not have support in the drive ROM for formatting disks or verifying them; these features were provided on a utility disk which also contained a disk copy utility for 3740 disks.

Disk drives for Commodore 8-bit systems

Parallel IEEE

8" \| 5¼" \| HD	8060 8061 8062 8280 \| 2031 2040 3040 4031 4040 8050 8250 SFD-1001 \| 9060 9090

Serial CBM

5¼" \| 3½"	1540 1541 1551 1570 1571 MSD SD Indus GT \| 1581 CMD FD

SCSI

HD	Lt. Kernal CMD HD

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