11 Dec
2005
11 Dec
'05
10:56 a.m.
Witchy wrote:
As for 3", they were used in the UK by the budget
home computer brands -
Sinclair, Amstrad, Tatung, Oric (Tangerine) etc.
Did Sinclair use them purely because Amstrad had taken them over (or were
about to) and Amstrad forced them to use that drive? I remember magazine
articles around the +3 launch complaining that it didn't have a 3.5" drive.
The other possibility is that there wasn't room in the case for a bigger drive
whilst keeping it the same footprint / style as the +2 :-)
Actually, I'd followed Sinclair up to that point - it was the fact that the +3
had a 'funny' drive which put me off getting one; I held out with my +2 for a
bit longer and ended up getting an Amiga...
cheers
Jules