On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:55 PM Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:25, Tony Duell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes we did!. The only TRS-80 that I know not to have been officially > > sold in the UK was the Color Computer 3 > [...] > > As I said -- I saw them in the shops. I know they were sold. I just > never even heard of a single person who *bought* one. :-) My late father and I? Over the years we bought a Model 1 (and then later the expansion interface and disk drive), several Color Computer 2's (and a couple of disk drive units) and a Model 100. The Model 3 and Model 4 I bought second hand, and as I mentioned I had the CoCo 3 shipped from the States. > > Hitachi certainly made 3" drives (I have some), they may well have > > been the originators of that disk. I don't think the Amstrad drives > > were Hitachi though, the ones I saw were nowhere near as well made as > > the Hitachi drives I have > > IIRC -- very possibly erroneously -- Amstrad bought in the early > units, then realised that there was a good margin on the media and > took over making its own, around the time that the OEM discontinued > them because 3.5" had won in the market. You might well be right. I bought some of the Hitachi drives when they were being sold of as they were cheap storage for my Color Computer, etc). But the only Amstra drive I came across was much later in a friend's CPC6128. That would have been late enough for Amstad to have been making their own I guess. -tony
