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From: Lance Lyon <black_at_gco.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat Feb 20 05:28:27 1999

Phil Guerney wrote:

> To all "Oz-nerds" (as opposed to Yank-nerds or Limey-nerds?:) - in the book
> "Programming the Dick Smith Electronics VZ300 Personal Computer" by Tim
> Hartnell, there is a section on attaching a disk drive (Cat X-7302) via a
> floppy disk controller (X-7304) which can take two drives. You also need the
> 16K memory expansion (X-7306). I have the latter, but I have never laid eyes
> on a VZ disk drive. I assume they are rare - if you had the sort of money I
> expect they wanted for them in 1986-7 (the system units were still being
> advertised in Aust Personal Computer in June 1987 for $A169 including
> datacasette and 4 programs) you would have bought a better computer!
>
>
> So has anyone ever seen that?
>

There's a suspicious looking dual floppy unit at Glenorchy, that although it has
no writing on the front, has the cross-hatch pattern that appears underneath the
VZ's logo. Might have a closer look, if it is for the VZ, I'll pick it up &
forward it to whoever wants it.

Lance
Received on Sat Feb 20 1999 - 05:28:27 GMT