On 7/24/12 11:18 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251110295055 looks to me like a prototype cartridge
for the IBM 0341 Four-Inch Diskette Drive (aka 3.9-inch) which was announced
by IBM in 1983 but shortly thereafter withdrawn in favor of the MIC
(Microfloppy Industry Consortium) adaptation of the Sony 3.5-inch design.
I don't think any production units ever shipped but evaluation units may
have shipped. FWIW, it was a single sided 358 kilobyte FM zone recorded
device.
The media spec is at bitsavers and promotional material is at the CHM. I
have a drive photo in my files
Tom
CHM has several media examples, and at least one drive that came from one I bought
off eBay a while ago
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=demidisk&type=all&…
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/floppy/DemiDiskette/IBM_DemiDiskette_Drive_and… is a
photo of the one I donated.