Floppy disk sizes ( was Re: Compaq Portable III fails POST? )

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Mike Loewen wrote: There are some trivial errors in that article, but MOST of it is correct; be careful about relying wikipedia for accuracy. Does anybody know WHICH bar the bar napkin sized disk is based on? I want a napkin from that bar! "In 1976 two of Shugart Associates's employees, Jim Adkisson and Don Massaro, were approached by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, who felt that the 8-inch format was simply too large for the desktop word processing machines he was developing at the time. After meeting in a bar in Boston, Adkisson asked Wang what size he thought the disks should be, and Wang pointed to a napkin and said "about that size". Adkisson took the napkin back to California, found it to be 5.25 inches (13 cm) wide, and developed a new drive of this size storing 98.5 kB later increased to 110 kB by adding 5 tracks.[2] This is believed to be the first standard computer media that was not promulgated by IBM."