Commodore Amiga 1010, 1011 and CD-1411 external floppy drives

Commodore Amiga 1010, 1011, CD-1411

This article covers all three of the 3.5″ external floppy drives produced by Commodore for the Amiga line of computers.

The external floppy drive Amiga 1010 was marketed alongside the Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985. As with all early Amiga peripherals, there is no Commodore logo on the case.

Commodore Amiga 1010

The Amiga 1011 was completely redesigned in terms of both mechanics and aesthetics, and was marketed in 1989.

Commodore Amiga 1011

Another notable difference is that the 1010 has an additional floppy connector at the back for connecting multiple drives in series, whereas the 1011 has no such connector and can only be the last drive in the chain. In most cases, an additional external drive was sufficient and reduced the need for constant floppy disk changes in systems without hard drives.

Commodore CD-1411

The CD-1411 is identical to the 1011 (as confirmed by the FCC ID on the label), except for the colour of the case. It was marketed alongside the CDTV in 1991.

Commodore Amiga 1010, 1011 and CD-1411 labels

Below is an exploded view of the 1010:

Commodore Amiga 1010 exploded view

and the 1011:

Commodore Amiga 1011 exploded view

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