480z system disk on ebay

[Jules Richardson]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On 25/09/05, Witchy <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>>Anyone interested in this ?
>>>
>>>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5270170547
>>
>>I would be if a) my 480z worked and b) I had a floppy drive for it :)
>>
>>--
>>adrian/witchy
>>Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
>>www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
>>
> 
> I've been trying to get hold of one of these and a 380z for ages, they
> seem to be quite scarce now. Unless I'm looking in the wrong places.

Disk hardware for a 480Z seems to be extremely rare. It appaears that 
RML wanted people to really use the 480Z with cassette units, and floppy 
was really only for a shared disk system on a network - so whilst 
finding a 380Z is pretty difficult, finding a disk unit for a 480Z is an 
order of magnitude harder.

Having said that, I haven't heard of any available 480Z's for a few 
years now - they seem to have vanished (surprising, given that they must 
have been *reasonably* common in schools at one point - did RML offer 
trade-ins for Nimbus hardware and then crush all the 480Zs or something?)

I've put a message out to the museum folks to see if they can rescue 
this disk; I don't think we have the welcome one...

cheers

Jules