26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
4:03 p.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
he
That means there are 5 different floppy disk
sizes that I now know of:
3"
3.5"
5"
8"
Add 2" to that - someone handed us a box of them t other week. I've got a
feeling that 2.5" existed, too (and presumably by
5"
you mean what's commonly
called 5.25"?)
t
12" (used on a special Sony Laservision
machine)
Hmm, Philips certainly had laservision players (go one here), but they're
optical laserdisk players, not floppy (as in
magnetic media) at all. I'd be
surprised if a rival company could use the same na
me
for a totally different
technology! I've heard rumours of a 12" IBM format
for one of their early
mainframes, but I don't know if that's just urban
legend or not.
cheers
Jules
Well here's the link to the pic:
http://www.dickestel.com/vintage2005.htm
It's picture 7, taken at the Vintage Computer Festiv
al 2005. I'm not entirely sure that is Robert holdin
g the disk, but he may have taken the picture instea
d?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk