Data Recall Diamond
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|date=December 2023}} It was user programmable. Later models included the Diamond III, the Diamond Five (a.k.a. Diamond V), and the Diamond 7.{{cite book|title=Handbook of Computer-aided Composition|author=Arthur H. Phillips|publisher=M. Dekker|date=1980|isbn=9780824769635|page=146}}
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.{{cite book|title=Digital Retro|author=Gordon Laing|publisher=The Ilex Press Ltd|date=2004|isbn=9781904705390}}
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Further reading
- {{cite book|title=The Seybold Report on Office Systems|publisher=Seybold Publications|date=1982–1983|volume=5–6|chapter=Data Recall}}
- {{cite book|publisher=Royal Town Planning Institute|date=1981–1982|volume=67–68|title=The Planner|page=170}}
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