2 Jul
2003
2 Jul
'03
1:25 p.m.
--- Lance S <semlj001(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
The reason that I'm looking for it is that my
father has been using his
8250 to run some software and his has broken. He's had a technichian
look at it and some parts are needed. It would be easier to buy another.
What parts? Drives? Power Supply? Main board? The main board is
about the only thing that really is hard to replace.
I don't know what specific disk drives shipped with the 8250LP, but if
it's the drives themselves, it's probably possible to find an equivalent.
As I understand, 1541 drives read / write in a
different format to the
8250 drives.
You do have the nub of it. Completely incompatible.
The 8250 is able to write 1Mb to each disk which I
don't think
the 1541 can do.
The 1541 has half the tracks and half the heads (and less than 25%
total space per diskette)
Good luck in your search. All of my PET hardware is older than that.
I have never even seen one up close, but they are out there.
-ethan