Timex FDD3000
Disk drive peripheral for Timex Sinclair machines and CP/M computer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disk drive peripheral for Timex Sinclair machines and CP/M computer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Timex FDD 3000[1] in 1982 was a nearly complete computer by Timex of Portugal.[2] It began its development at Timex Computer Corporation in the U.S., but it was at Timex of Portugal that the work was finished.
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The Timex FDD 3000 is an upgraded Timex FDD (sometimes known as the FDD3 because it consisted of three separate boxes: a floppy-disk drive, the controller and the power supply).[3][1][2] The Timex FDD3 was intended as a floppy disk peripheral for the Timex TC 2048 or TC 2068 microcomputers.[3] It usually had 16K RAM and only one 3″ disk drive, but could be upgraded to 64K RAM and a second disk drive, making it capable of running CP/M. Since the controller is electrically compatible with today's disk drives, it is possible to connect a 3.5″/5.25″ disk drive to the Timex FDD3 Controller.
Later, Timex combined the three boxes of the FDD into one big box called the Timex FDD 3000. Timex also added 64K RAM, a second 3″ floppy disk drive and a line in the controller cable to pass the video signal generated by the Timex Terminal 3000 to the back of FDD 3000 box.
The FDD/FDD 3000 can be used as a disk drive peripheral or as a CP/M computer.
To use the FDD or FDD 3000 with a computer, an interface module is needed. It's called Timex Interface (TI) and contains the FDD/FDD 3000 initialization code in a ROM.
Because of the differences between the TC 2048 and the TC 2068 ROMs, there are two TI versions: an all-black version for ZX Spectrum & TC 2048 and a black with silver reset button for T/S & TC 2068. The TI TC 2048 version can be used with T/S & TC 2068 plus emulator cartridge (it has to be a "bootable" cartridge as you cannot type OUT 244,3 because the computer will crash).
Zebra Systems Inc.[5] sold an all-silver TI. There is a TI ROM version that will work with ZX Spectrum 128.
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