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I think Acorn made a big mistake using those chips for their floppy disk drives, they were expensive and availability was not good.They should have used the WDC
by mrlonglong 3y ago
I think Acorn made a big mistake using those chips for their floppy disk drives, they were expensive and availability was not good.They should have used the WDC1770 instead but that's life.
- tom_ 3y agoAcorn did figure this out eventually and used the 177x from about 1984.
- mrlonglong 3y agoThe 1772, yes. I had at the time a 1770 from Solidisk.
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- rasz 3y agoAcorn was badly mismanaged. BBC Micro Computer Literacy Project was the best marketing any money could buy, and yet Acorn still managed to not be able to keep up with BBC royalties while selling tons of BBC Micro/Master computers.