9 May
2005
9 May
'05
5:54 p.m.
14" drives - full rack width, with room for some casting on either side.
8" drives - two side-by-side in a rack width. (Perfect fit, in fact.)
5.25" drives - probably completely unconstrained by rack widths. I
think a recent document on bitsavers details the IBM DemiDiskette,
which was something like 4" :-).
Height of a FH 5.25" drive is the same as an 8" drive.
3.5" drives - ???? No idea
There was a joke in BYTE in the early 80's about diskette manufacturers
keeping the punched out "holes" from each size of floppy for use
as future floppy sizes :-).
Tim.