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From: ewen@actrix.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Amstrad CPC
Summary: Software and Hardware for Amstrad CPC with HDs
Keywords: Amstrad HD hard disk  club
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.213339.3433@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 25 Nov 90 21:33:39 GMT
References: <1543@doitcr.doit.sub.org>
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 47
Comment-To: jungkunz@doitcr.doit.sub.org

Sorry about this folks - the mail bounced.  I am slightly more
suprised that it did this time, the address looks much more like a
domain address.  However, please check the address.

In article <1543@doitcr.doit.sub.org> jungkunz@doitcr.doit.sub.org writes:
> Hello world, as they say.   Doesn't anybody ever read my notes?
> We, the Schneider/Amstrad CPC User Group of Munich, Germany, very well
> support the CPC machines with their various RAM expansions and BIOSes.
I must admit that I didn't recall you mentioning a HD.  I did try to
reply to your earlier messages, but the mail bounced (althougth
this  return address looks _much_ better).

> There  i s  a harddisk for the CPCs. For all three types the same one!
> [...]
>  
> It is necessary to have at least a minimum configuration RAM-disk by either
> dktronics or (better) the same brand as the hard disk: 
> DOBBERTIN Elektronik, Brahmsstr. 4, 6835 Bruehl, West-Germany  
Now, that sounds very interesting.   Both the HD, and the ram-disk.
Could you mail me more information about the ram-disk (I already own
the dk'tronics one but I have a friend who would be very interested
in the one you mention).
 
The HD is also interesting - but costing more than the machine, I
don't think that I can afford it.  Infact, I would rather go out and
buy a '286 or a '386 given the price difference (they are here for
NZ$3000 compared to the cost of the Amstrad CPC for NZ$1200).  This
is mostly due to the terrible support that Amstrad recieves in NZ.,
and the fact that most people here own PC clones.

> I have been using my hard disk together with NZCOM and Z3PLUS [...] 
I was considering the purchase of NZCOM or Z3PLUS, but I wasn't sure
how well it would work with the machine.  I am already having
trouble with the BIOS patch for the dk'tronics ram disk (under CP/M
Plus). Do you have any replacement patches suitable?

> Please - do spread the word. There are MEGABYTES of P.D. Software sitting here
> ready to go out to any willing regional distributor at very little charge.
> Keep Z up and going!
I am interested in this.  Do you think it would be possible to put
some of the programs onto 5.25" floppies if I were to mail them
to you?  Can you supply a mail address?

Ewen McNeill, Secretary for Amswell - Amstrad club of Wellington NZ.

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Ewen McNeill.				Email: ewen@actrix.gen.nz