Date   : Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:22 +0100
From   : andrew.hancock@... (Andrew Hancock)
Subject: eBay Pricing Psychology Discussion - was Re:

> I wonder what 380z's are worth, I've got two and a
> "Winchester Disc" under the bed...
>
>
> Some of my earliest experiences with computers were on a 380Z - My dad
> was a lecturer at Tameside college, and would borrow one from the
> computer department over holidays and bring it home for me to use!
> Other times I'd goin with him and I'd sit at a terminal of the Data
> General mini & write video games.... (not easy on a text-only serial
> terminal with no inkey() option)

> I'd quite like a 380Z again, but really do have nowhere to put one
> (under the bed is already full)..

I'd like one again as well, and interestingly, a link back to Beeb hardware.
Whilst I was at school in the early eighties, when we got our first BBC
Micro, we used the disc storage facilities of the RML 380Z using MACE, a
network system that uses the RML to serve BBCs.

It worked very well, for storing our O level projects on the RML 380Z. 

Later it was replaced by what I think was called a Hobbit tape system, which
used micro-tapes, similar to voice recorders.