25 Feb
1998
25 Feb
'98
11:38 p.m.
Scratch that. I thought the title said 8" disks. That's what I get for
looking at E-mail before I have my coffee.
At 07:28 AM 2/26/98, I wrote:
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Enrico Tedeschi, 54 Easthill Drive, Brighton BN41 2FD, UK
Tel/fax(+01273) 701650 (24 hours) and 0498 692465 (mobile)
please visit my website at: <http://www.brighton-uk.com>
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I still find them in the surplus stores here (Florida).
I'm going to one
today that has at least two new sealed boxs of them and several boxs of
used ones. If anyone needs them let me know and tell me what's a fair price
for them.
Joe
At 07:20 AM 2/26/98 +0000, you wrote:
for
There is a firm here called CPC, in Preston, UK
that still sells them BUT
they
>are VERY expensive and you have to buy 10 of them. If you still want them I
>can dig the address out for you.
>
>Regards
>
>enrico
>
>Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>> > Isn't 3" a Japanese-market format? If so, I'd bet you could
find them sale on a web
site there.
Well, the drives were certainly made by Hitachi (and possibly others), so
in that sense it did come from Japan. But then again, 3.5" drives came
from Sony, didn't they?
The 3" disks were quite widely used in the UK by the popular Amstrad
machines (the CPC664 and 6128 home computers and the PCW series of word
processors). The Tatung Einstein also used them.
Thank you,
David Wollmann
-tony