Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives

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12 points | by Skyfall106 10 hours ago

3 comments

  • belviewreview 51 minutes ago
    My first computer was an Amstrad 8256 (also known as the Joyce). It came with a 3" drive. They worked ok but were expensive. After a while I installed a standard 3.5 " drive in the second drive slot. Besides being cheaper and much easier to obtain, they also had twice the capacity, as I recall. Over time I also installed a modem and replaced the 8 bit dot matrix printer with a 16 bit one.
  • alienbaby 56 minutes ago
    Had a pcw8256 . Learned z80 assembly and cp/m. Added line drawing and pixel plotting to locomotive basic. Fun times :)
  • iberator 3 hours ago
    Thx. Didn't know until now that 3" floppies even existed
    • manwithaplan 1 hour ago
      And speaking of Matsushita setting up a dedicated production line for the 3-inch floppy drives, they will have done the same for the dedicated 2-inch floppy drives production line 5 years later:

      https://youtu.be/YhKWMHN4m0U?t=67