30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
11:19 a.m.
>And the story I've heard about the 3.5"
size is that it fits in the pocket
>of a typical men's shirt. <shrug>
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Chuck Guzis
wrote:
That's certainly the talk I heard back then. One
innovation that's often
overlooked is the automatic shutter so that a paper "envelope" isn't
needed
to protect the cookie. Certainly, the envelope on the 3.25" Dysan floppy
would be easily lost--and the floppies would get contaminated with lint if
you tried to keep them in a shirt or coat pocket.
. . . and bent, mangled, etc.
But Dysan did not want to go to the extreme of switching to a hardshell.
and,... the "wisdom" of the time was that the accepted format would be the
one with software availability, so they bet it all with a giant publishing
venture.
My early Shugart 3.5" diskettes had no shutter.
Then came the manually slide open, and pinch the corner to close.
Many fairly modern diskettes still have the little arrow that pointed to
where you were to pinch it!
It's too bad that the 3" didn't carry the field.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com