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  • PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…

    ... was going to say the floppy drive, but a 286 probably had ... a 720K drive or a 5.25 ...
    Jmk Jmk June 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…

    ... was going to say the floppy drive, but a 286 probably had ... a 720K drive or a 5.25" drive...[/quote]
    older ...
    guesser guesser June 2006 Chit chat
  • PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…

    ... 'm still using my original floppy drive, my real IBM keyboard (No ... is so satisfying), plus the floppy cable and an IDE cable ...
    MikeW MikeW June 2006 Chit chat
  • Why so many disk systems?Why did the Speccy have so many floppy disk systems like wafadrive, tr-dos, +3disk, and many more? As far as I can see, this did nothing but create …

    ... 48K Speccy had an internal floppy drive, so what matters it?
    Where's that AY chip gone... Where's that AY chip gone... June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why so many disk systems?Why did the Speccy have so many floppy disk systems like wafadrive, tr-dos, +3disk, and many more? As far as I can see, this did nothing but create …

    ... 48K Speccy had an internal floppy drive, so what matters it?

    3. The 3" drive was a very unpopular choice ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why so many disk systems?Why did the Speccy have so many floppy disk systems like wafadrive, tr-dos, +3disk, and many more? As far as I can see, this did nothing but create …

    ... add an external 3.5" floppy drive to a +3 quite easily ...

    Of all the drive systems I've ever uised ... 3.5" format and +D drive systems, but I think Andy ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What could Sinclair have doneI know that he lost interest in home computers, but Sinclair as a computer company could have had a longer life span than it did, the move from 8 bit…

    ... 68000 CPU, 16-bit busses, floppy drives and a VIC-II ... keyboard, 128K of RAM, a floppy drive option and a sound chip ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What could Sinclair have doneI know that he lost interest in home computers, but Sinclair as a computer company could have had a longer life span than it did, the move from 8 bit…

    ... a complete system including monitor, floppy drive and printer it was substantially ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Garry Lancasters +3e site down?Hi, I have been trying to access Garry's page about the +3e ROM, because I know of a utility for the +3 he has on the site which makes it possible f…

    ... ]http://www.cpcmania.com/Docs/Floppy/Jumpers-Disquetera.gif[/url]
    Floppy/Floppy.htm[/url]

    Slightly ... between those two at the Floppy-Drive end of the cable, so ... put an IDE-power to Floppy power convertor on it - ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Garry Lancasters +3e site down?Hi, I have been trying to access Garry's page about the +3e ROM, because I know of a utility for the +3 he has on the site which makes it possible f…

    what kind of floppy drive is it? I didn't think most modern drives had the right signalling?
    guesser guesser July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Garry Lancasters +3e site down?Hi, I have been trying to access Garry's page about the +3e ROM, because I know of a utility for the +3 he has on the site which makes it possible f…

    It is a standard PC floppy drive. I found it in the ... is a normal HD disk drive, produced by ALPS Electric Co ... try and find another PC drive and test as soon as ...
    8bitten 8bitten July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Reproducton HardwareHi, I have just come into some machinery which should allow me to replicate disk drive cases, cartridge cases, joysticks etc. Basically it's a lase…

    ... looking into getting a custom floppy/hard drive rack for inside a ... would accomodate a PC standard floppy drive (minus the facia) and a ... 2.5" hard drive.

    Could your equipment ...
    KeepGood KeepGood July 2006 Hardware
  • Reproducton HardwareHi, I have just come into some machinery which should allow me to replicate disk drive cases, cartridge cases, joysticks etc. Basically it's a lase…

    ... laid out for a PC floppy drive (minus a facia) to fit ... the original 3" drive. Directly under the fd drive a 2.5 ... " hard drive bay is in ... the front of the drive so any standard drive can be used ...
    KeepGood KeepGood July 2006 Hardware
  • +3 soundhello there, just a quick-fire question today. i'm kinda keen on the idea of using my +3 quite a bit, particularly if i bother to to actually sort …

    ... one track, and an amiga floppy drive sound in another. *cough* geek ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace July 2006 Hardware
  • Playing Denied Ultimate GamesHmmm, maybe this belongs in Emulators but it is game specific. Just been leafing through Games(TM) in Smiths and there's an article about a (strong)…

    ... 't, except for the second floppy drive and video capture cartridge) and ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Games
  • Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…

    ... the drive ready pins (I have put another floppy connector ... /> Again face up,
    floppy drive
    connects here [/FONT] ...
    guesser guesser August 2006 Hardware
  • Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…

    Look out an old floppy drive cable, the ones with a ... generated by the floppy controller chip when 'a' drive is connected, so ... for the XT and AT floppy drive pin differences will give you ... in the back of the floppy drive back to front (red away ...
    KeepGood KeepGood August 2006 Hardware
  • Gray +3??saw this on ebay I thought the +3 only came in black?? [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-spectrum-3_W0QQitemZ290023306146QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1…

    ... .

    I ate his floppy drive with some father beans and ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton August 2006 Hardware
  • Gray +3??saw this on ebay I thought the +3 only came in black?? [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-spectrum-3_W0QQitemZ290023306146QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1…

    Ok I've just pretended to be dead thick and asked the guy "Even though it doesn't have a floppy drive, does the rest of the machine work ok?"

    I wait with baited breath for a reply.
    BruceNorton BruceNorton August 2006 Hardware
  • Gray +3??saw this on ebay I thought the +3 only came in black?? [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-spectrum-3_W0QQitemZ290023306146QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1…

    hehe... my +3 is lacking floppy drive too... altough only because it ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace September 2006 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum +3 - incompatible ?Hello :) I'm newbie here. I know WOS site since years, never checked forum before ;) , but this moment came when I have problem. I wanna buy ZX Spe…

    the spectrum +3 floppy drive is an amstrad 3" type, which is obsolete, however a standard 3.5" drive can be fitted as a second drive allowing you to use 720k disks, then you can copy games to the disk from the Realspectrum emulator.
    guesser guesser September 2006 Hardware
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... a poor choice. .../... A micro-drive would have been a much ... loss. Even an 3.5" floppy drive would not enough to reinstate ...
    Arda Arda October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • replacement +3 psuok, who would be kind enough to help an idiot build a replacement PSU for the +3 / +2a , from a PC power supply? Guesser has already helped out a gr…

    ... know i have a spare floppy drive, so i'll give it ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace October 2006 Hardware
  • How rubbish is thatIt was perhaps last year when I bought a new power supply, as the old one at something like 250W was getting a bit shaky. Then, recently, my computer…

    ... , 3 HDD, USB card reader, floppy drive. It all adds up (additional ...
    icabod icabod October 2006 Chit chat
  • Which Emulator?I?m interested to know which emulator people use! Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading e…

    ... , +D system, external 3.5" floppy drive for the +3 etc. Since ...
    DEATH DEATH November 2006 Emulators
  • Hey people, I'm new and in dire need of help pleaseOk I have just now found a XZ Spectrum+3 in my loft with a box of games and software. I have got it up and working; but I am having trouble getting g…

    ... that the belt in the floppy drive is broke. It is a ... is no disk in the drive and select the loader option ...
    pottyboy pottyboy December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... SIAC is the Sam motherboard, floppy drive + interface, IDE interface + Compact Flash ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Tranferring a game back to +3 disk?Hi, Haven't been on here for ages, but got my Spectrum down from the loft recently, due to a house move in the next few months. I'd forgotten, but so…

    ... about connecting an amstrad 3" drive to a PC, but assuming ... to connect a standard PC floppy drive to the +3, the files ...
    guesser guesser January 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Anyone have any pics of their collection?I'm an Atari 800XL owner and the main media that games were on for that were tape. Trouble is I've seen loads of pics on the net of peoples collectio…

    ... acts as a virtual tape/floppy drive.
    Pengwin Pengwin January 2007 Games
  • Amstrad takeoverHello guys, Let me introduce myself - I'm the owner (well, if you can call it that?) of [url=http://www.cpcwiki.com]CPCWiki.com[/url], and obviously…

    I have a floppy drive that's quietly gathering dust. I can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk!
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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