Odd floppy drives (was: Orbis

... except when the rubber band wore out. You could often get away with adjusting the tension, but when the belt was gone, it was new drive time. Or was it? Digging through a pile of scrap bought from another shop that had gone bankrupt, I discovered that one of the belts in a Ferguson 3V24 belt kit fitted pretty much perfectly, but was made of slightly thicker rubber. This was in the dim distant mists of 1991, when I used to get about half-a-dozen PCWs with dying floppy drives through the shop every week. Nothing else ever went wrong with them. Ever. After WWIII when we have all perished in nuclear flames, the only living things on Earth will be the cockroaches, and they will be typing up their stories on Amstrad PCW8512s. Gordon.