24 Nov
2008
24 Nov
'08
1:10 p.m.
--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Antonio Carlini <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
That's what I would bet on. While the knowledge that diskettes come in three primary
sizes (8", 5 1/4" and 3 1/2") is common among us geeks, the general
population has entirely forgotten about 8" disks, and refers to 5 1/4" disks as
"those big bendy disks", "five inch disks", or similar. Remember all
the people that called 3 1/2" disks "hard disks"?
Even computer companies - people that should know better, make mistakes when talking about
floppy disks. Last week I was in a Staples store (American office supply store chain), and
saw a Memorex 3 1/2" USB floppy drive, the package stating clearly that it supported
"1.44mb double sided and 720k single sided diskettes".
-Ian
On Mon, 24 Nov
2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> Was there a 5" floppy format? I wouldn't
be surprised to find out
yet
> another format that I've never come
across
before, but I don't recall
it
> cropping up here.
5.25"
OK. So it _could_ have been a
typo/thinko/not-know-o/whatever.