Commodore 1541 Series Disk Drives

This includes all variants of the 1541


VIC 1541 (light colored case)
    Manual (.pdf)

    Service Manual

    Technical Manual (.pdf)


1541/1541C (ALPS & Newtronics)

    Manual

    Service Manual

    Troubleshooting


1541-II

    Manual

    Service Manual


Other related sources:

Articles

  • Building a 1541 Internal Parallel Cable.

    This is a link to 64Copy Central and deals with adding a parallel cable to a 1541 for, say, connecting to a ZoomFloppy for archiving disks.


  • A Simple Guide to Disk Drives

    An article giving specifications and comparisons between different disk drives.


  • Commodore Drives are History (Jim Brain)

    This article is from Commodore World issue #11. Great article about the history of Commodore Disk Drives.


  • 1541 Disk Memory Map (Karl Hildon).

    This article is from the Transactor "Commodore Inner Space Anthology", pages 57-59 and deals with the memory maps of the 1541 disk drive.


    • Books

  • Commodore 1541 Troubleshooting & Repair Guide
    Author: Michael G. Peltier
    ISBN: 067224704
    Publisher: SAMS
    Links: Bombjack.org


  • Inside Commodore DOS - The complete guide to the 1541 disk operating system.
    Author: Richard Immers, Gerald G. Neufeld
    ISBN: 0835930912
    Publisher: Datamost
    Links: Bombjack.org


  • The Anatomy of the 1541 Disk Drive
    Author: Lothar Englisch, Norbert Szczepanowski
    ISBN: 0916439011
    Publisher: Abacus
    Links: Bombjack.org


  • 1541 User's Guide
    Author: Gerald Neufeld, Ph.D.
    ISBN: 0893037389
    Publisher: Datamost
    Links:Bombjack.org