In message <00ae01c1570c$3550db00$c7075cc3@default>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Roy Wood wrote: >>I was told that, just before the QL was due for release, someone >showed >>Sir Clive one of the 'new' 3.5" drives and said it would fit into the >>same space as the microdrives. He is reported to have said 'That will >>never catch on' > >Last year I saw a QL with a 3.5 inch disk drive in place of the >microdrives, not sure if it was Alex Wells at a Quanta workshop? It >was mentioned in QL Tady at some point but a quick scan through failed >to find. > >It definitely can be done with patience and dexterity.
Well spotted, Dilwyn. I am pretty sure that Sinclair also developed a few prototypes for internal testing, etc, that included disk drives ... although whether they were 'working' ones, or just 'dummies' I couldn't say. I will try and check this out sometime, as I still know the industrial designer who worked on the QL project for Sinclair. -- Malcolm Cadman
