3.25" diskettes

[Jules Richardson]

Witchy wrote:
> As for 3", they were used in the UK by the budget home computer brands -
> Sinclair, Amstrad, Tatung, Oric (Tangerine) etc. 

Did Sinclair use them purely because Amstrad had taken them over (or were 
about to) and Amstrad forced them to use that drive? I remember magazine 
articles around the +3 launch complaining that it didn't have a 3.5" drive.

The other possibility is that there wasn't room in the case for a bigger drive 
whilst keeping it the same footprint / style as the +2 :-)

Actually, I'd followed Sinclair up to that point - it was the fact that the +3 
had a 'funny' drive which put me off getting one; I held out with my +2 for a 
bit longer and ended up getting an Amiga...

cheers

Jules