SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU (07/17/90)
I have an overstock of these diskettes. We had high hopes that Z3PLUS would become very popular with the Amstrad crowd in Europe. As a result, I bought a second-hand Amstrad to develop a custom version of Z3PLUS and to produce the diskettes. I also bought a supply of those ridiculously expensive diskettes. A hundred of them cost about as much as the whole computer, with its extra high-density disk drive and serial port! Well, it turns out that those Amstrad folks are about the least sophisticated computer users in the world, even the ones who consider themselves super-intelligent and belong to Mensa (there is a user group in the US for Amstrad owners that is loosely affiliated with Mensa). They basically just live in their Locoscript wordprocessor, and that is it. Consequently, I have far more of these diskettes than I can use, and I would like to see them doing someone some good. I am willing to ship them to anyone in the US postpaid at $35 per box of 10. This is less than I paid dealer-wholesale in quantity and is less than the price in England, where competition appears to keep the price a little less outrageous. This offer is good while supplies last. My kids make good use of Locoscript on the Amstrad, and an order for Z-System software comes along every so often, so I will keep a few extra disks on hand. I should be able to part with five or six boxes. -- Jay Sage
wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) (07/17/90)
I have seen in SAMS wholesale stores packages of 3" diskettes, about 2 for $6, intended for one of the combined printer-wordprocessing machines. I don't know that these fit amstrads, but they are smaller than the usual 3.5" disks. Clarence Wilkerson .
tpm@dlcq15.datlog.co.uk (Tim Murnaghan) (07/20/90)
In article <9007170825.AA18210@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU writes: > > Well, it turns out that those Amstrad folks are about the least >sophisticated computer users in the world, There is something of a communications gap here. I bought an Amstrad because it was cheap and because I thought that there'd be lots of good CP/M software available. It turns out to be quite difficult to get the stuff, I've never seen anything about Z-system on it until recently in this newsgroup, and even the UK CP/M user group aren't very helpful as they have trouble with the disks (they will write them - but no guarantees that they'll be readable), and the magazines are full of Loco-stuff. As most of the magazines want more contributors maybe Jay should have tried writing an article on Z-system to enlighten the poor Loco-souls out there ? Mind you it's probably a bit late now. Tim.