>Virtually EVERYONE who is an ignoranus, or
wasn't involved in those days
>call them 5"
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I must be hanging around with wrong class of ignoramus
- I've never
heard
them called anything other than 5-1/4". Obviously these days I never
hear
them called _anything_ ...
As soon as people got into computers who started with 3.5", they started
to get sloppy and call them 5"
3" I do have (for some Amstrady thingumies).
3.25" I've never had the
pleasure to chance upon (although I know they do exist).
3.25" was the Dysan fiasco. We can tell you a lot more about them if you
want to be bored.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com