The Timex FDD 3000
in 1982 was a nearly complete computer by
Timex of Portugal.
It began its development at
Timex Computer Corporation in the U.S., but it was at Timex of Portugal that the work was finished.
The Timex FDD 3000 is an upgraded Timex FDD (sometimes known as the FDD3 because it consisted of three separate boxes: the disk drive, the controller and the power supply).
The Timex FDD3 was intended as a
floppy disk
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peripheral for the
Timex TC2048 or
TC2068
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microcomputer
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s.
It usually had 16K
RAM
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and only one 3″ disk drive, but it could be upgraded to 64K RAM and a second disk drive, making it capable of running
CP/M
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. 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 (it's also possible to connect a Hitachi 3″ disk drive to an
IBM PC Compatible
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computer).
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 generate