Amdek 3" Floppy Drives

When I worked for Zebra Systems in the 1980's, we were selling a Floppy Disk System for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 (which also worked for the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum with a different Adaptor), that was basically a seperate Z-80 Computer with 64k of RAM and could run CP/M in 80 Column Mode on an RGB Monitor plugged into the Controller Unit. At the time, Timex Portugal who made these units... Gave us a choice of 5.25" Disk Drives, 3.5" Disk Drives or 3" Disk Drives made by Amdek. They pushed the Amdek drives the hardest on us. And I BEGGED Stewart to go with either NO Disk drives as we could buy them cheaper in the U.S. and add them to the Controller ourselves... Or, go for 5.25" Drives. For reasons I don't fully understand... Stewart opted for the Amdek 3" Drives. They were plenty reliable, but... We couldn't get media for them from anywhere but Timex Portugal, which meant importing large orders of blank media from overseas. Rather than getting them from a domestic source as we did our 3.5" and 5.25" media for our Coco, Atari-ST, Amiga and other products. To this day, I think we would have sold MANY more units had we gone to another media format than 3" Amdek disks. I still have a couple here with the OS for that system on them. I have a ZX-Spectrum Bus Adapter here, but no drive controller or drives. Al Hartman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com