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 Qume daisywheel printer via a serial interface at 35–55 characters per second, and used an 8-inch floppy disc drive capable of holding 250,000 characters. 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.

Typewriters

Manufacturers	Brother Commodore International E. Remington and Sons IBM Imperial Typewriter Company Oliver Typewriter Company Olivetti Royal Typewriter Company Smith Corona Underwood Typewriter Company Xerox

Models	Blickensderfer typewriter Data Recall Diamond Hammond Typewriter Hansen Writing Ball IBM Selectric typewriter Sholes and Glidden typewriter

Prominent figures	Lucien Stephen Crandall James Densmore Carlos Glidden Rasmus Malling-Hansen Henry Mill Clarence Seamans Christopher Sholes James Fields Smathers Lyman Cornelius Smith Samuel W. Soule Kyota Sugimoto

Components	Platen QWERTY Typebar

Data Recall Diamond

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