2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
5:41 a.m.
David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:29:45AM +0100, Alexander
Schreiber wrote:
I used to repair Amstrads in the early 90s in a shop in Aberdeen. The
PCW range found a lot of use on oil rigs and fishing boats, because they
were cheap, fairly tough and could withstand extremely dirty power. If
they'd just made them in a slightly more ruggedised case, they'd
probably still be selling them.
Gordon
There have been 3" floppies, IIRC used by
some (Amstrad?) eletronic
typewriters.
Also in Amstrad computers, and a few other minor 8-bit manufacturers. I
believe that Hitachi also used them.
After they stopped being used in normal computers, they were still used
in some marine applications for a while, presumably because they were
more physically robust than 3.5" floppies, and were stocked by some
chandlers on the east coast of the UK for use in the North Sea fishing
fleet.