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

30 Aug 2006

...
  > Certainly, the envelope on the 3.25" Dysan
floppy
 > would be easily lost--and the floppies would get contaminated with lint if
...
   you tried to
keep them in a shirt or coat pocket. 
 . . . and bent, mangled, etc.
 I remember a case where one of my customers received a very special 8"
floppy.
We could see that the box it came in, had been mangled by a car tire. There
were strange marks on the carton box, indicating that it had been bent in
the process. When the disk out, the soft floppy envelope had been damaged,
so what to do next ? We took a working 8" floppy, carefully carefully the
disk from the envelope, put the disk from the damaged envelope into the good
envelope, and read the disk.

My customer was so hysterical about throwing things out, that I regularly
had to come and take a disk out of the drive, as it had come out of the
envelope :-)
 Nico

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