13 Oct
1999
13 Oct
'99
7:52 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Aaah! A 3.9" diskette. Is that what those Canon CMD-500's use? Must
be a strange looking diskette judging by the clearance in the drive.
- don
On or about 09:55 PM 10/12/99 -0400, Allison J
Parent was caught in a dark
alley speaking these words:
Or the 3.25" (NOT hard-shelled) that Dysan bet the company on.
there were plenty of "odd" disk drives
and media out there like the
Amstrand 3" and the really old sony 3.5".
Don't forget the even odder
ones, like Tandy's 2.8", or Zenith's 2.0" 720K
disks... I think those 2" disks were higher than 135TPI, I think they were
close to 200, but the exact number escapes me... Oh, if anyone has one of those Amstrad drives for
sale... I remember
drooling over those when I was young... I have the ad's in some of my old
HotCoCo's (I have the premiere issue around somewhere...) maybe if I get a
chance, I'll scan one in...
Actually, that was AMDEK that sold the 3" subsystem for Coco and for Apple
][. Amstrad sold some computers that used 3"
I am NOT enthusiastic about parting with any of my 3" or 3.25" drives.
But, ... maybe some trades for 3.9", 2.5", etc. --
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
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