The £250 Sharp MZ700 should be supporting a disk drive in a week's time with CP/M following at the end of February. Second, third and fourth plug-in drives are due to be available from March.

The drive, to be distrbuted in the UK by Kuma (07357-4335), will cost a hefty £569.25.

The price includes interface card, cable, disk operating system and disk Basic. The capacity is 280K and the drive will take standard 5.25" floppies. It is fully compatible with MZ80A disk Basic.

Kuma meanwhile is hurrying to produce software for it.