25 Sep
2005
25 Sep
'05
5:18 p.m.
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Allison wrote:
Definately older than 1974.
The oddest I'd seen was Ionovex The mech was about 8" high and about as wide
but the media was a web of mylar with oxide and the head spun under it with
a variable radius. Strange affair. I got to see it as bare drive but never
as part of a system.
Alan Shugart is regarded as the inventor of the "floppy" disk in 1971 at
IBM. So unless Al comes forward with a confession, this guy's story will
need a lot more details than just off-hand ramblings.
I've seen this kind of thing a lot: one person claims that they invented
somesuch and that some company came by, checked it out, wished them well,
then went off and stole the technology.
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He claims that he was the inventor of the basic
floppy mechanism ... This was around 1980, maybe 1979.
69 ~ 70?
I mean, by 1980 floppies were down to 5.25" and the 8"
had been out well over 5 years. Maybe the guy with the
knob drive was lying even harder than you suspected.
John A.