the only questions i have are are we stacking drives instead of the disks? Also i was raised on commodore as well, and i had to replace the power supply on THAT. I didn't go the cheap route either. The new one looked like a power converter. Metal box with an indicator light. As for the floppy drive, this was one of my first hardware mods. Instead of punching holes in the hundreds of disks i owned, instead i bypassed the notch sensor. That drive was something. It actually had a built in computer and the settings could be reprogrammed. This is one of the main staples of the copy protection schemes they used back then. A disk's bootloader would reprogram the drive and make it able to read the rest of the disk. amiga floppy drives were the same way. This is also how the quick-loaders worked. They set up a handshake with a client program on the computer and transferred data an average of 8x the speed of the stock program. when Final Cartridge 3 was first released, it was hitting speeds of 25x but there were incompatibilites so they cut it back. That cartridge could literally do anything you wished. I could dump any game to disk, scroll up or down in program listings, use a built-in assembler, etc. It even had a quick-loading GUI similar to windows 1.0 that supported a mouse! Among other things, it had an 80-character text editor with numerous fonts. An accomplishment considering the c64 had a 40-char display.