13 Oct
2002
13 Oct
'02
8:30 a.m.
Sellam,
Does your count of 2 Aquarius disk drives include the one I have here in
Brisbane, Australia? We have communicated about several things over the
years, but I can not remember if the Aquarius came up.
What is particularly interesting about the one I have, perhaps, is the
serial number RH0100001. I know these numbers can be misleading, but it
certainly looks like a low number!
The disk manual is just a set of photocopied pages. There are a total of 7
AQ-DOS commands (DIR, INIT, SAVE, LOAD, KILL, WRITE, DISKCOPY). The DOS has
a MicroSoft copyright. Each side of the 3"(?) floppy holds 51,200 bytes
which means 102,400 bytes alltogether (which is exactly 100K).
This was one of my first ever vintage purchases, from a local classified ad,
and the whole Aquarius kit including the drive cost me $A20. At the time I
had no idea how rare the floppy drive was, but I soon found out as I started
to investigate it. I would love to know how it got to this city.
Cheers
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: latest find...
A lot of the stuff that Aquarius promised never came
out. However, I did
just buy a modem off of eBay. And I missed (by a couple hundred dollars)
an incredible auction that include the ultra-mega-rare Aquarius disk drive
(3" mechanism) and 4-color printer. If I had more money I would have bid
more (it ended up being something like US$350). There are only two
Aquarius disk drives that I know to exist.