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It's a shame that he glosses over 3" disks. They were widely used in the UK of all places throughout the 1980s because Amstrad selected them for their Z80-base
by rwmj 3y ago
It's a shame that he glosses over 3" disks. They were widely used in the UK of all places throughout the 1980s because Amstrad selected them for their Z80-based office systems. I'd love to know what cheap deal Alan Sugar got with Hitachi to offload old stock that made this happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW
- einr 3y agoNot just the Amstrad PCW series, but also the Amstrad CPC home computers as well as the ZX Spectrum +3 (produced after Amstrad bought Sinclair)
- AkBKukU 3y ago(I'm the video author) The focus was more on how the Sony drive became the standard and less about all the competing formats. The CFD was the only serious competition and, in the US at least, it never reached the levels of putting up a fight like the ZipDisk vs. SuperDisk or Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD. The Amstrad was the only system OEM I found that really used it, so while it did have some market it definitely wasn't wide spread to other systems like the BBC Micro, Acorn, or (Proper) Sinlcairs.
- rwmj 3y agoGreat video & channel BTW.
- UncleSlacky 3y agoTatung also used them on the Einstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein