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Neil Purling · 10th Nov 2018, 8:35 am

A very long time ago I also used to have an Amstrad PCW. They were basically glorified typewriters as Mr Sugar drove a horse & cart through the established standards for the various ports & drives, so you couldn't just go out and buy a replacement 3.5" floppy disk drive. I had to hunt around to get 720K floppies, although you could re-format 1.4Mb disks to 720K Amstrad under CPM.
Locomotive Software was offering Locoscript 2 at the time and add-on HDD's. These were pitifully small, even by the standards of the time.At least you weren't hammering at the Locoscript boot disk every time. I copied mine.
These machines had the Z80 CPU which was a dinosaur even in 1993.
The CPM operating system was very much like DOS.
The whole thing worked, even though that 9-pin dot-matrix printer sounded like a bunch of enraged bees & it was glacially slow on the 'best quality' setting.

10th Nov 2018, 8:35 am	#16
Neil Purling Nonode Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 2,085	Re: Can anyone read the old CF2 discs ? A very long time ago I also used to have an Amstrad PCW. They were basically glorified typewriters as Mr Sugar drove a horse & cart through the established standards for the various ports & drives, so you couldn't just go out and buy a replacement 3.5" floppy disk drive. I had to hunt around to get 720K floppies, although you could re-format 1.4Mb disks to 720K Amstrad under CPM. Locomotive Software was offering Locoscript 2 at the time and add-on HDD's. These were pitifully small, even by the standards of the time.At least you weren't hammering at the Locoscript boot disk every time. I copied mine. These machines had the Z80 CPU which was a dinosaur even in 1993. The CPM operating system was very much like DOS. The whole thing worked, even though that 9-pin dot-matrix printer sounded like a bunch of enraged bees & it was glacially slow on the 'best quality' setting.