24 Nov
2008
24 Nov
'08
3:50 p.m.
On Monday 24 November 2008 06:34:21 pm Fred Cisin wrote:
Didn't IBM make a 4" size around the time that sub-5.25" was just getting
going as well?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
>Virtually
EVERYONE who is an ignoranus, or wasn't involved in those days
>call them 5"
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I must be hanging around with wrong class of
ignoramus - I've never
heard
them called anything other than 5-1/4". Obviously these days I never
hear
them called _anything_ ...
As soon as people got into computers who started with 3.5", they started
to get sloppy and call them 5"
3" I do have (for some Amstrady thingumies).
3.25" I've never had the
pleasure to chance upon (although I know they do exist).
3.25" was the Dysan fiasco. We can tell you a lot more about them if you
want to be bored.