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Actual price for a Timex FDD3000

Started by	Mário Moreira <mariochapas@gmail.com>
First post	2013-01-25 18:21 -0800
Last post	2013-02-01 04:56 -0800
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  Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 Mário Moreira <mariochapas@gmail.com> - 2013-01-25 18:21 -0800
    Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 06:18 -0800
      Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 06:35 -0800
        Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 07:42 -0800
          Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 korax1214@gmail.com - 2013-01-27 07:56 -0800
            Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-29 03:07 -0800
              Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-29 03:10 -0800
            Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-29 03:31 -0800
        Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 07:42 -0800
    Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 korax1214@gmail.com - 2013-01-27 07:53 -0800
    Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk> - 2013-01-31 12:19 +0000
      Re: Actual price for a Timex FDD3000 SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com> - 2013-02-01 04:56 -0800

#1809 — Actual price for a Timex FDD3000

From	Mário Moreira <mariochapas@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-25 18:21 -0800
Subject	Actual price for a Timex FDD3000
Message-ID	<e493bd5a-5c2a-46e8-b132-853bdcf2729b@googlegroups.com>

How much (approximate) is the actual price for this unit? Can't find this anywhere. How many units where produced?

Thanks,
chapas

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#1811

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-26 06:18 -0800
Message-ID	<1e0dd9af-ae2c-4cbe-b8cb-dee273db6cf2@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1809

does any software apart from a single processor version of cpm work with this device? any freescape patches or other 3d vector stuff

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#1812

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-26 06:35 -0800
Message-ID	<20aee34d-61d3-452e-a810-d3efc248b4f7@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1811

On Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:18:49 UTC, SamTek  wrote:
> does any software apart from a single processor version of cpm work with this device? any freescape patches or other 3d vector stuff

there are two right?

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#1813

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-26 07:42 -0800
Message-ID	<9cce829a-4dc8-4f7d-a3f9-346852798897@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1812

On Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:35:44 UTC, SamTek  wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:18:49 UTC, SamTek  wrote:
> 
> > does any software apart from a single processor version of cpm work with this device? any freescape patches or other 3d vector stuff
> 
> 
> 
> there are two right?

neither BBC BASIC (which did originally have support for a coprocessor) nor CPM will use this as a second processor? in fact neither the pds nor the micro command speech could also be used in this way though obviously thanks to a lack of DMA in the serial port the other two might be a tad faster if they could communicate with the other main CPU

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#1816

From	korax1214@gmail.com
Date	2013-01-27 07:56 -0800
Message-ID	<03bc89cd-42c8-48fc-ab2f-87d25c31bf56@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1813

On Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:42:11 UTC, SpamTrek  wrote:
>in fact neither the pds nor the micro command speech could also be used in this
>way though obviously thanks to a lack of DMA in the serial port

Hardly surprising -- AFAIK DMA only did stuff for the Amiga. :-) Most notably Lemmings, of course; and they're now Rockstar North anyway...

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#1823

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-29 03:07 -0800
Message-ID	<f8644f68-796a-438d-a7f0-3361b98ebafe@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1816

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 15:56:31 UTC, kora...@gmail.com  wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:42:11 UTC, SpamTrek  wrote:
> 
> >in fact neither the pds nor the micro command speech could also be used in this
> 
> >way though obviously thanks to a lack of DMA in the serial port
> 
> 
> 
> Hardly surprising -- AFAIK DMA only did stuff for the Amiga. :-) Most notably Lemmings, of course; and they're now Rockstar North anyway...

DMA as in Direct Memory Access not the software company its a chip an IC that complements the z80 - is that slightly less trolly eggnchips n e 1

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#1825

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-29 03:10 -0800
Message-ID	<ad0182b5-c72d-4533-8d20-e478bf26064a@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1823

http://www.8bc.com/sinclair/DOWNLOAD/index.htm

see it has a DMA it's a  chip
does this make any sense to anyone know?

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#1832

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-29 03:31 -0800
Message-ID	<ae0cd825-ddce-4de9-a7f6-beb143cc7ab1@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1816

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 15:56:31 UTC, kora...@gmail.com  wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:42:11 UTC, SpamTrek  wrote:
> 
> >in fact neither the pds nor the micro command speech could also be used in this
> 
> >way though obviously thanks to a lack of DMA in the serial port
> 
> 
> 
> Hardly surprising -- AFAIK DMA only did stuff for the Amiga. :-) Most notably Lemmings, of course; and they're now Rockstar North anyway...
DMA- direct memory access its a blitter chip for the z80
and sam coupe had lemmings so ...

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#1814

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-01-26 07:42 -0800
Message-ID	<193534ef-7186-4115-89ca-7690bacfacb8@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1812

On Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:35:44 UTC, SamTek  wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:18:49 UTC, SamTek  wrote:
> 
> > does any software apart from a single processor version of cpm work with this device? any freescape patches or other 3d vector stuff
> 
> 
> 
> there are two right?

tad=about ½ a million space knautical miles

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#1815

From	korax1214@gmail.com
Date	2013-01-27 07:53 -0800
Message-ID	<f6e3033e-2c17-4735-904e-3aa7fae423d0@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1809

On Saturday, 26 January 2013 02:21:01 UTC, Mário Moreira  wrote:
> How much (approximate) is the actual price for this unit? Can't find this anywhere. How many units where produced?

Sorry that you've got several answers from this newsgroup's current troll (none of which have the least bearing on your question, of course); maybe someone will soon give you a sensible answer...

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#1879

From	Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk>
Date	2013-01-31 12:19 +0000
Message-ID	<kedngc$rou$1@speranza.aioe.org>
In reply to	#1809

On 26/01/2013 02:21, Mário Moreira wrote:
> How much (approximate) is the actual price for this unit? Can't find this anywhere. How many units where produced?

Nobody knows. It was sold by Timex in Portugal, Zebra in the US and 
Unipolbrit in Poland. Also there were two interfaces, one that included 
the disk drives (3" like the +3 if memory serves) and one that was just 
the interface. Although really it was a computer in its own right with 
its own Z80, rather than a simple interface.

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#1891

From	SamTek <rogerjowett@gmail.com>
Date	2013-02-01 04:56 -0800
Message-ID	<1f0b8afa-bf37-4e81-ab3c-a4e0739f663a@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#1879

On Thursday, 31 January 2013 12:19:26 UTC, Andrew Owen  wrote:
> On 26/01/2013 02:21, Mário Moreira wrote:
> 
> > How much (approximate) is the actual price for this unit? Can't find this anywhere. How many units where produced?
> 
> 
> 
> Nobody knows. It was sold by Timex in Portugal, Zebra in the US and 
> 
> Unipolbrit in Poland. Also there were two interfaces, one that included 
> 
> the disk drives (3" like the +3 if memory serves) and one that was just 
> 
> the interface. Although really it was a computer in its own right with 
> 
> its own Z80, rather than a simple interface.

pity the cpm and the BBC Basic for CPM didn't realise that there were actually two processors one in it and one in the timex - be nice to see romods for zx spectrum and even sam coupe ...

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