This is a hardware setup to allow you to manipulate Commodore files and disk images with a PC, or with patience, a Mac via USB attached hardware.
Included items:SFD-1001 Commodore Floppy Drive - Recapped Spindle board - Cleaned - Tested - Lubricated.ZoomFloppy with IEEE interface to disk drive, USB to computer. (C64/128 Serial as well for OTHER drives - not for concurrent use)20 (Two Boxes) DSDD Diskettes - Boxes opened to test. Formatted with name \"Blank\", ID = 42. (The picture shows one box of 8050 diskettes in error.)IEEE Cable (Connects ZoomFloppy card to drive) and (Connects drive to PET with below adapter) or (Connect drive to IEEE interface).IEEE to PET adapter (Connects drive to PET computer)USB Cable (Connects ZoomFloppy card to computer)Power Cable
DVD with:Manuals/Software for CBM drives, ZoomFloppy, CBMXfer, etc.Files and disk images for CBM (mostly PET) and drive utility diskettes. But you can add to your library form online archives.All of my PET info/download collection gatherings from the Internet.
Since theZoomFloppy has both IEEE and Serial interfaces, you can put any files that you can download onto diskettes to use with your vintage Commodore PET, (C64 or C128 with YOUR serial drive and cable) .
This is a very high density drive. For example all twelve of the TOSEC PET Game disk image files will fit on two diskettes. With the ZoomFloppy software, you can break down images to their individual files and load your diskettes file by file. Formatting is easy as well by just entering a diskette name and an identifier.
The ZoomFloppy software front end for OpenCBM is in Windows (CBMXfer), but you can write OpenCBM scripts to run in the OS X terminal or run the commands line by line.
You will have to do a custom insulation of all of the software for your operating environment, so it is not exactly plug and play, but after you have your setup complete, you should be able to attach any CBM IEEE or (YOUR serial drive) to your PC for file manipulation. I use it with the SFD-1001, 8050, 4040, and and 8250. The only drives that do not seem to have full support are the MSD SD1 and SD2 drives.
HINT: This drive is fully compatible with the Commodore 8250. If reading the single sided disks from a Commodore 8050 drive, just reenter your command after receiving a read error and it will go into single side mode.
For more information about the setting up and work involved on your part, look at Google box is 12x12x20\", 16#