Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > Some of the Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
> > > remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
> >
> > Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256, Spectrum +3) along
> > with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
> > sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro
>
>I saw an ad in an Apple ][ magazine that advertised one for the Apple ][.
There were regular ads in Hot CoCo and Rainbow magazines for these as well
-- a little expensive, but they were advertised as 'flippy' disks straight
off, so the amount of storage was rather good for the time...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 12:11:48 GMT