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The Commodore 1572 was a dual 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 designed by Commodore
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....
. It reached the prototype stage, and was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show
Consumer Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show is a trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association....
 in 1985, but was never released to the public. One reason it was never released was that the code of the 1572 had compatibility problems.

Commodore 1572 was a dual version of the 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....
 single disk drive. It had four times as much RAM as the 1571, and twice as much 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 ....
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The Commodore 1572 was a dual 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 designed by Commodore
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....
. It reached the prototype stage, and was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show
Consumer Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show is a trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association....
 in 1985, but was never released to the public. One reason it was never released was that the code of the 1572 had compatibility problems.

Technical aspects

The Commodore 1572 was a dual version of the 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....
 single disk drive. It had four times as much RAM as the 1571, and twice as much 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 ....
. The 1572 allowed for fast disk backups, much like the old 4040
Commodore 4040

The Commodore 4040 and its sibling, the 2040 and the European marketed 3040, were dual unit 5¼" floppy disk drives for Commodore International computers....
, 8050
Commodore 8050

The Commodore 8050 and Commodore 8250 were dual unit 5¼" 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 IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET computers....
, and 8250 dual drives.

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