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The Commodore 1570 was a 5¼" floppy disk
Floppy disk

A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangle plastic shell....
 drive for the Commodore 128
Commodore 128

The Commodore 128 home computer/personal computer was the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore International . Introduced in January of 1985 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas metropolitan area, it appeared three years after its predecessor, the bestselling Commodore 64....
 home
Home computer

A home computer was a class of personal computer entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as accessible personal computers, more capable than video game consoles....
/personal computer
Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
. It was a single-sided, 170KB version of the double-sided Commodore 1571
Commodore 1571

The Commodore 1571 was Commodore International high-end 5?inch floppy disk drive. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it had the ability to utilize double-sided, double-density floppy disks natively....
, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International
Commodore International

Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a United States electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home computer/personal computer field in the 1980s....
 was unable to provide large enough quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms. Like the 1571, it could read and write both GCR
Group Code Recording

In computer science, group code recording refers to several distinct but related encoding methods for magnetic media. The first, used in 6250 Characters Per Inch magnetic tape, is an error-correcting code combined with a run length limited encoding scheme....
 and MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation

Modified Frequency Modulation, commonly MFM, is a line code scheme used to encode information on most floppy disk formats, which include the floppy disk formats used in the classic versions of Amiga OS, most CP/M operating system machines as well as IBM PC compatibles running DOS....
 disk formats. The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541
Commodore 1541

The Commodore 1541 , made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5?" disks....
 case with a drive mechanism similar to the 1541 except that it was equipped with track zero detection.






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The Commodore 1570 was a 5¼" floppy disk
Floppy disk

A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangle plastic shell....
 drive for the Commodore 128
Commodore 128

The Commodore 128 home computer/personal computer was the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore International . Introduced in January of 1985 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas metropolitan area, it appeared three years after its predecessor, the bestselling Commodore 64....
 home
Home computer

A home computer was a class of personal computer entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as accessible personal computers, more capable than video game consoles....
/personal computer
Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
. It was a single-sided, 170KB version of the double-sided Commodore 1571
Commodore 1571

The Commodore 1571 was Commodore International high-end 5?inch floppy disk drive. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it had the ability to utilize double-sided, double-density floppy disks natively....
, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International
Commodore International

Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a United States electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home computer/personal computer field in the 1980s....
 was unable to provide large enough quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms. Like the 1571, it could read and write both GCR
Group Code Recording

In computer science, group code recording refers to several distinct but related encoding methods for magnetic media. The first, used in 6250 Characters Per Inch magnetic tape, is an error-correcting code combined with a run length limited encoding scheme....
 and MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation

Modified Frequency Modulation, commonly MFM, is a line code scheme used to encode information on most floppy disk formats, which include the floppy disk formats used in the classic versions of Amiga OS, most CP/M operating system machines as well as IBM PC compatibles running DOS....
 disk formats. The 1570 utilized a 1571 logic board in a cream-colored Commodore 1541
Commodore 1541

The Commodore 1541 , made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5?" disks....
 case with a drive mechanism similar to the 1541 except that it was equipped with track zero detection. Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541. Its ROM
Read-only memory

Read-only memory is a class of computer storage media used in computers and other electronic devices. Because data stored in ROM cannot be modified , it is mainly used to distribute firmware ....
 also contained some DOS bug fixes that didn't appear in the 1571 until much later. The 1570 could read and write all single-sided CP/M format disks that the 1571 could access.

Although the 1570 was compatible with the Commodore 64
Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of United States dollar595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes of Random-access memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of tha...
, the C64 wasn't capable of taking advantage of the drive's higher-speed operation, and when used with the C64 it was little more than a pricier 1541. Also, many early buyers of the C128 chose to temporarily make do with a 1541 drive, perhaps owned as part of a previous C64 setup, until the 1571 became more widely available.