26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
4:25 p.m.
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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 the other week. I've got a
feeling that 2.5" existed, too (and presumably by 5" you mean what's
commonly
called 5.25"?)
12" (used on a special Sony Laservision machine)
Hmm, Philips certainly had laservision players (got 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 name 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
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