10 Dec
2005
10 Dec
'05
5:04 p.m.
> I was chatting with someone else who prides
himself on computer arcana and
> I mentioned that I had some 3.25" diskettes and drives. >
> How rare are these things?
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Nico de Jong wrote:
well, in my 20+ years in media conversion, I've
never come across one.
We've discussed 3.25" before.
The Seequa Chameleon 325 was the only machine that I ever saw that came
with one. (in my 25+ years of media conversion :-)
But there were a lot added to other machines, including PC, by software
publishers in preparation for something that never came together.
On 9/24/2005 at 9:52 AM Fred Cisin wrote:
The Dysan 3.25" was kinda neat. Dysan bet the
company that the
"shirt pocket" disk (3", 3.25", 3.5", 3.9") that would
succeed
would be the one with software availability.
and they didn't want to do
complete retooling
So, they overextended
themselves creating a software publishing/distribution company
providing MOST of the big popular software titles on 3.25".
'Course George Morrow said that the solution was to cut a deal with
the clothing industry to enlarge shirt pockets to 5.25" or even 8".
I have a drive, and used to have some extra Micropro diskettes (including
alignment disks!) that I gave away.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com