To go along with the 128, Commodore also released a new floppy drive in the form of the 1571. Much like the 128 itself, this drive was designed to replace and build upon its predecessor - the 1541 - while retaining near 100% backwards compatibility. A second read head was added, enabling both sides of a disc to be accessed simultaneously (though the second side would be effectively backwards, making it incompatible with a 1541), and a new burst transmission mode doubled transfer speeds. It even supported reading IBM-compatible MFM format discs and CP/M discs, among others.
Released as both a stand-alone drive and integrated into the C128D and C128DCR, the 1571 was all but retired with the C128 in 1989, and discontinued entirely with the C64 in 1994.
