25 Jan
2005
25 Jan
'05
4:11 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
I saw an ad in an Apple ][ magazine that advertised one for the Apple ][.
There were regular ads in Hot CoCo and Rainbow magazines for these as well
-- a little expensive, but they were advertised as 'flippy' disks straight
off, so the amount of storage was rather good for the time...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Some of
the Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256, Spectrum +3) along
with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro