Hi Tony,
>> Would I be right in assuming that the machines with SA400s
>>had double sided drives and the ones with Canon drives were
>>single sided?
>
> Not always. All the machines at my school (which were 2 of
>each sort IIRC) had double sided drives....
Ah well, another otherwise fine theory shot down in flames.... :-)
>> I wonder if that's the same machine I spotted? The chap who
>>had it for sale ended up taking it home....
>
> No idea, of course.
>
> It came with a keyboard....
>....Oh, and a few disks and a pile of manuals.
No, the one I spotted had no keyboard, software or manuals.
So that makes at least two "spotted in the wild"....
> Inside it has 64K RAM (see my other message), the hires card,
>minidisk controller and bus terminator. It has all the standard
>interfaces you'd expect from those (user port, SIO-4) and the
>colour output option as well.
*NICE* setup. Only one of our machines had the hires card (funnily enough
the one with the "free" RAM card) and it was darn useful....
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Sun Mar 26 2000 - 21:06:20 BST