On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 03:26 +1300, cr wrote: > I did that in Farmers once, years ago, when they were selling Amstrad 464's > or 664's or something. In the days when home computers used cassette tape > by default for storing programs (and horrible it was!) > > Me: "Can you get a floppy disk drive for it?" > Farmer's teenage shop assistant: "What's a floppy disk?" > > Which is about what I'd expected. The 664 had a built-in floppy drive; known as "The Idiot" during development as it was initially a device to confuse journalists with (left carelessly in the corner of the office while press interviews were conducted). The 464 had it as a bolt-on extra. The 6128 - my baby - had more memory and a slimmer floppy drive. I shall go back to the Sad Corner. Vik :v) ---- Van Roy's Law: Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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