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NEWS & VIEWS
SPECIAL CES EDITION
Shifting our attention now to the
peripherals, uie notice again the smashing
new 'look' shared by all the new Conmodare
products (we find out later that this is
mostly the doing of an in-house designer
at Cornnodore named 'Minn1 who we think
should get a medal of some kind!)
The new 1571 disk drive is also a 3-in-1
deal which matches itself intelligently to
the mode of the computer using it, as well
as the format of disk being accessed- thus
it can automatically tell that it is being
used with a C-128 in the CP/P1 mode and
that the diskette is in Kaypro format, and
act accordingly! We learn that there is
also a dual version of this double-sided
drive that will be introduced later this
year. The good news is that the 1571 will
work with all Commodore computers
(including the C-64 and the LCD); the bad
news is that it has neither greater speed
or greater capacity than a 1541 when used
with the C-64 or in the 64 mode with the
C-128; back to the good news, it is 5
times faster than the 1541 in the 128
mode, and 10 times faster in the CP/1H
mode! Also guaranteed to please is the
expected price: $199!"
A quick look at the new 1902 RGB monitor
(necessary for BO-column color) and the
Comnodore House finishes our tour thru the
Coranodare booth. As we say goodbye to
Jeff and the other (obviously pleased)
booth-dwellers, we try to find out when
all this stuff will be available; no one
will be pinned-down (are we surprised?)
but the months that kept coming up were
POay/June for the C-128 & 1571, with the
LCD about a month behind.
Well, I hope you enjoyed our trip to Winter CES:
we'll do it again at Summer CES in Chicago this Junesee
you there!
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