On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:41 +0000, Adrian Graham wrote:
> > 31/4 drives were used on the old Amstrad word processing
> > machines (forget the number - do any of the other UK members know?
PCW8256?
They were (I think Hitachi) 3" drives that were going to be 'the next big
thing'.
Yep, I remember them being 3" too. I hate to think how many drive belts
I've replaced on them when I worked for a repair place many years ago.
The Amstrad drives were certainly belt-driven (and replacing the belt was
a common job). The Hitachi drives I've used (single and double head) had
direct-drive spindle motors, though.
-tony