The Data Recall Diamond One was a word processing typewriter, designed and built by Data Recall Ltd at Dorking, Surrey, England in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The machine drove a diablo 1355 daisy wheel printer via a parallel interface at 35–55 characters per second, and used an 8-inch floppy disc drive capable of holding 250,000 characters.[ citation needed] It was user programmable. Later models included the Diamond III, the Diamond Five (a.k.a. Diamond V), and the Diamond 7. [1]
One of the names suggested for the Amstrad PCW was the Zircon, on the grounds that zircon was "a Diamond substitute". This name was rejected. [2]
References
- ^ Arthur H. Phillips (1980). Handbook of Computer-aided Composition. M. Dekker. p. 146. ISBN 9780824769635.
- ^ Gordon Laing (2004). Digital Retro. The Ilex Press Ltd. ISBN 9781904705390.
Further reading
- "Data Recall". The Seybold Report on Office Systems. Vol. 5–6. Seybold Publications. 1982–1983.
- The Planner. Vol. 67–68. Royal Town Planning Institute. 1981–1982. p. 170.