Why Amstrad chose the 3" drives
Skyfall106
13 points
4 comments
November 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
iberator
Thx. Didn't know until now that 3" floppies even existed
alienbaby
Had a pcw8256 . Learned z80 assembly and cp/m. Added line drawing and pixel plotting to locomotive basic. Fun times :)
belviewreview
My first computer was an Amstrad 8256 (also known as the Joyce). It came with a 3" drive. They worked ok but were expensive. After a while I installed a standard 3.5 " drive in the second drive slot. Besides being cheaper and much easier to obtain, they also had twice the capacity, as I recall. Over time I also installed a modem and replaced the 8 bit dot matrix printer with a 16 bit one.