Remember the Sinclair Microdrive?

[Project Monkey]

Sinclair also produced a 3" FDD. I had one in my CPC6128. I was chuffed to bits with it at the time.

[SupremeSpod]

Sinclair also produced a 3" FDD. I had one in my CPC6128. I was chuffed to bits with it at the time.

<cough>Amstrad</cough>

Just saying, like...

[Project Monkey]

<cough>Amstrad</cough>

Just saying, like...

Yeh, it did have that feel come to think of it.

[SupremeSpod]

Yeh, it did have that feel come to think of it.

Sinclair was bought out by Amstrad.

Kids, eh?

Tatung used the same size disks.

Ocean used the "Tatung Einstein" as their development machines.

[Project Monkey]

...in fact, it WAS an Amstrad. Was the Spectrum+ also an Amstrad?

[xoggoth]

That avatar is REALLY horrible suity.

[suityou01]

That avatar is REALLY horrible suity.

Better now?

[NickFitz]

...in fact, it WAS an Amstrad. Was the Spectrum+ also an Amstrad?

Yes, that came after Amstrad had bought Sir Clive out.

I remember the Microdrive being announced. Guy Kewney in PCW called it out straight away as being a tape drive at a time when many thought it would be a disk. His logic: if it was a disk, Sinclair would have called it that, as a new disk drive would be much more marketable than a tape drive. Time passed...















...and it was finally released, and it was indeed a tape drive. This sort of thing was why PCW was such essential reading in those halcyon days

[Ignis Fatuus]

Sinclair was a bit of a c*^1 . He used to by job lots of reject components so often his kit would fail.

He wasn't alone. When I took my faulty new Commodore 64 back to the retailer, they commented that, while all other microcomputers went back for repair, Commodore had asked them to hold extra stock and simply replace faulty units without question. Or as they said, Commodore saved money by having the customers do the quality control.