26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
3:48 p.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
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wrote:
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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That means there are 5 different floppy disk
sizes that I now know of:
3"
3.5"
5"
8"
Add 2" to that - someone handed us a box of them t other week. I've got a
feeling that 2.5" existed, too (and presumably by
5"
you mean what's commonly
called 5.25"?)
hmmm, now you have me slightly confused. After sendi
ng the message I did remember the 5.25" disks (as us
ed on BBC's etc.), but I assumed that 5" and 5.25" w
ere different sizes.
what's with 2" and 2.5", wouldn't they be too
fiddly and/or store too small amount of data
to make them worthwhile?
12" (used
on a special Sony Laservision machine)
Hmm, Philips certainly had laservision players (go one here), but they're
optical laserdisk players, not floppy (as in
magnetic media) at all. I'd be
surprised if a rival company could use the same na
me
for a totally different
technology! I've heard rumours of a 12" IBM format
for one of their early
mainframes, but I don't know if that's just urban
legend or not.
No legend... give me a while and I'll find a link
to a pic of a 12" disk... Robert Bernardo
(Amiga enthusiast) has been pictured with one
at a retro event fairly recently.
cheers
Jules
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk