22 Aug
2018
22 Aug
'18
11:41 a.m.
On 08/22/2018 10:47 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
The 3.25" ALMOST made it to market.? It was used
on the "Seequa
Chameleon 325".? So technically, it made it to market.
Dysan (3.25") did not want to go with a hard shell.? The 3.25" had a
metal center hub, but was the same jacket material as 5.25 and 8 inch.
Besides shirt pocket dimensions, Dysan reasoned that the winner would be
the one that had software availability.? So, they bet the company
(literally) on software publishing in 3.25".? For a brief time, you
could have purchased most of the major software packages on 3.25" disk!?
Dysan software publishing had more titles than Lifeboat.? When that did
NOT win the war, Dysan never really recovered. The 3.25" drives and
diskettes that I have came from MicroPro (Wordstar).
I believe that's my photo of a 3.25" floppy over on Wikipedia. Still
have a couple of drives and boxes of media to go with them.
I think most owners of the Chameleon 325 swapped out the drives for
conventional 3.5" ones eventually. The interface is the same.
I recall seeing some 3.25" drives back in the day on one of the shelves
of Haltek (not Halted) marked "Shugart Venture". A venture that got
nowhere.
I do miss the old Haltek.
--Chuck