Looking for 3" disks

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Feb 26 07:28:41 1998

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:
>>
>> > 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
>
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