24 Feb
1998
24 Feb
'98
4:09 p.m.
Mattel
Aquarius with Mini-expander and two game controllers in excellent
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
These mini expanders are like mondo-rare. I don't think I've ever
actually seen one. 
25 Feb
25 Feb
3:08 a.m.
Mattel Aquarius with Mini-expander and two game
controllers in excellent
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
These mini expanders are like mondo-rare. I don't think I've ever
actually seen one. =========================================
Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com
Senior Software Engineer
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Museum of Personal Computing Machinery
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum
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5:50 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
I've actually touched it myself, so its real alright. It is truly
amazing. I've only ever seen it in old advertisements on the Blue Sky
Rangers web page. Doug found it at a surplus shop.
I'm jealous.
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While I'm
thinking about it, does anyone know where I can get any
blank 3" disks (for a Mattel Aquarius QD drive)?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoa, Douggie, you own an Aquarius Disk dirve?!?!? It must be a
prototype; I didn't think any of those ever existed!
6:55 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
I've actually touched it myself, so its real alright. It is truly
amazing. I've only ever seen it in old advertisements on the Blue Sky
Rangers web page. Doug found it at a surplus shop.
I'm jealous.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Well, it just goes to show you that you don't need a metal detector
to find buried treasure anymore . . .
Jeff
While
I'm thinking about it, does anyone know where I can get any
blank 3" disks (for a Mattel Aquarius QD drive)?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoa, Douggie, you own an Aquarius Disk dirve?!?!? It must be a
prototype; I didn't think any of those ever existed! 
6:15 a.m.
At 08:08 AM 2/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoa, Douggie, you own an Aquarius Disk dirve?!?!? It must be a
prototype; I didn't think any of those ever existed!
Jeff
Isn't 3" a Japanese-market format? If so, I'd bet you could find them for
sale on a web site there.
Thank you,
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support
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IBM file and media formats.
> > > Mattel Aquarius with Mini-expander and two game controllers in
excellent
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
These mini expanders are like mondo-rare. I don't think I've ever
actually seen one.
While I'm thinking about it, does anyone know where I can get any
blank 3" disks (for a Mattel Aquarius QD drive)? 
9:35 a.m.
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8:20 p.m.
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:
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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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Isn't 3" a Japanese-market format? If
so, I'd bet you could find them for
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 
26 Feb
26 Feb
2:28 a.m.
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:
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:
--
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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>
========================================================
Isn't 3" a Japanese-market format? If
so, I'd bet you could find them for
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
2:38 a.m.
New subject: Brain Fart was Re: Looking for 3" disks
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>
========================================================
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 
28 Feb
28 Feb
7:54 a.m.
New subject: Brain Fart was Re: Looking for 3" disks
Joe wrote:
Scratch that. I thought the title said 8" disks. That's what I get for
looking at E-mail before I have my coffee.
First you dribble some coffee into the keyboard. Rituals like that were
called "libations" back in the pagan days, they worshipped the earth mother
and poured a bit of wine onto the ground. Nowadays we are much more
enlightened.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
26 Feb
26 Feb
6:32 a.m.
New subject: Looking for 3" disks (for the Aquarius drive)
If I remember correctly, the Aquarius disk drive used not 3" disks but
something slightly smaller, like 2.8" or something similarly silly.
But I may be entirely wrong. I gotta go check out that web page again.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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