Date   : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:04:15 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche 1 (Sheffield)

Tim Fardell wrote:
> Excellent. If it still does exactly what you want, no need to get rid 
> of it. I wonder how many hundreds of these have been thrown out just 
> because the disk drive belt disintegrated :-(

I did a considerable number of belt replacements on those machines when 
working at a computer repair shop in the early 90s; lucrative for the shop 
owner. Gradually we stopped seeing them - as this was around the time PCs 
started dropping significantly in price, I assume folks were just upgrading 
(although whether they retired the Amstrads due to belt failures, I don't know)

cheers

Jules