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Commodore IEEE-488 Cartridge

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Commodore IEEE-488 Cartridge

This cartridge added an IEEE-488 port to the Commodore 64, the parallel bus of the PET and CBM business machines. With it, a C64 could use the faster, larger PET and CBM disk drives, such as the 4040 and 8050, and their printers. It was po...

Released

1983-1985

Model

C64 IEEE-488

Status

Discontinued

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The story

This cartridge added an IEEE-488 port to the Commodore 64, the parallel bus of the PET and CBM business machines. With it, a C64 could use the faster, larger PET and CBM disk drives, such as the 4040 and 8050, and their printers. It was popular in schools and offices that already owned PET equipment.