18 Apr
1997
18 Apr
'97
3:06 a.m.
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:07:38 +0100 (BST)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios(a)vennea.demon.co.uk>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: FAQ
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
And the Einstein luggable among other things, 3" disks were very tough
little bleeders, chuck 'em against a wall and they'd still be okay.
2" floppies were mentioned, I distantly remember those and I think there
was an early digital camera that used those too. How many photos they
could sqeeze into 720K is anyone's guess!
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The *first* micro floppy was 3" in width.
Yes, you heard me correctly.
Amdek designed and built a SSDD 3" floppy drive around 1983-84 (or so...
I'll have to look) that used it's own style of media (and it was flippy,
unlike the 3.5" of today) and they interfaced it to and marketed it for two
computers that I know of:
The Radio Shack (Tandy) Color Computer, and
The Atari 800.
Also used on the Oric computers (Oric-1, Oric Atmos and Oric Telestrat
[aka Stratos]) and the Amstrad CPC, PCW and CPC Plus series.