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:
>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
>>
>>--
>>========================================================
>>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>
>>========================================================
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 07:38:02 GMT