The Indus GT was a floppy disk drive made by Indus Systems of California, USA during the early 1980s for Commodore

Commodore International

Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore Business Machines , the U.S.-based home computer manufacturer and electronics manufacturer headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which also housed Commodore's corporate parent company, Commodore International Limited...

, Apple II series

Apple II series

The Apple II series is a set of 8-bit home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II...

 and Atari

Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...

 home computer

Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...

 platforms of the day.http://page6.org/archive/issue_12/page_20.htm It came in a black casing with a smoke plexiglas cover over the drive mechanism. Behind the cover was an 8 segment LED

LEd

LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....

 track and sector display.http://www.retrobits.net/atari/indus.shtml It was considered as a high-quality unit, regarded by many as the best floppy drive available for 8-bit Atarishttp://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware.asp?t=1&c=460&st=1. It was advertised as being over 400% faster than the Commodore 1541

Commodore 1541

The Commodore 1541 , made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks...

and had an internal "ROM drive" with DOS utility commands.http://lyonlabs.org/commodore/hardware/index.html#indus