Rumor has it that Joe R. may have mentioned these words:
I once took apart a Loral 1553 bus-analyzer that
had 3 or 3.25 inch
drives.
I can't speak for 3.25, but Amdek made (or at least packaged) 3" floppy
drives/disks for at the very least the Tandy Color Computer. If I'm not
mistaken (which entirely could be) they were 'electrically compatible' with
standard (read: IBMish) 5.25" drives. Also IIRC (tho this very well could
be wrong) Tony at least once mentioned they were available for a UK
machine... Beeb? Acorn? I *think* Acorn, but don't quote me on that.
What I've always wanted to do (and I have the drives, but not the time to
do it) was graft one of the 2" floppy drives that came on the Zenith
MiniSport onto one of my CoCos - internally. I always thought that would be
neat...
Course, now that CF is cheap & plentiful & there's CoCo IDE interfaces with
CF slots right on 'em, it wouldn't be very difficult to hack up a
"big-storage" internal solution on a CoCo nowadays. But 10 years ago, the
2" 720K floppy seemed to be "the way to go." ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at
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