latest find...

From: Phil Guerney <guerney_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Sun Oct 13 08:30:01 2002

Sellam,

Does your count of 2 Aquarius disk drives include the one I have here in
Brisbane, Australia? We have communicated about several things over the
years, but I can not remember if the Aquarius came up.

What is particularly interesting about the one I have, perhaps, is the
serial number RH0100001. I know these numbers can be misleading, but it
certainly looks like a low number!

The disk manual is just a set of photocopied pages. There are a total of 7
AQ-DOS commands (DIR, INIT, SAVE, LOAD, KILL, WRITE, DISKCOPY). The DOS has
a MicroSoft copyright. Each side of the 3"(?) floppy holds 51,200 bytes
which means 102,400 bytes alltogether (which is exactly 100K).

This was one of my first ever vintage purchases, from a local classified ad,
and the whole Aquarius kit including the drive cost me $A20. At the time I
had no idea how rare the floppy drive was, but I soon found out as I started
to investigate it. I would love to know how it got to this city.

Cheers
Phil





----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: latest find...


> A lot of the stuff that Aquarius promised never came out. However, I did
> just buy a modem off of eBay. And I missed (by a couple hundred dollars)
> an incredible auction that include the ultra-mega-rare Aquarius disk drive
> (3" mechanism) and 4-color printer. If I had more money I would have bid
> more (it ended up being something like US$350). There are only two
> Aquarius disk drives that I know to exist.
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 08:30:01 BST