10 Dec
2005
10 Dec
'05
10:48 p.m.
yup, the 2inch drives were built into the Minisport,
which had some pretty nifty firmware feature, which
was able to exert control of the command line of
another computer connected by a serial cable.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
On 12/11/2005 at 9:22 AM Lance Lyon wrote:
Zenith offer a
2"
Amstrad CPC's used 3" diskettes (180kb
capacity).
cheers,
Lance
Smith-Corona PWP's used 2.8" diskettes and didn't diskette at one time?
--Chuck
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11 Dec
11 Dec
11:43 a.m.
On 12/10/2005 at 7:48 PM Chris M wrote:
yup, the 2inch drives were built into the Minisport,
which had some pretty nifty firmware feature, which
was able to exert control of the command line of
another computer connected by a serial cable.
That's the one! Does this hold the distinction for the smallest floppy
ever used on a production system?
Cheers,
Chuck
5:55 p.m.
New subject: small diskettes
>yup, the 2inch drives were built into the
Minisport,
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
That's the one! Does this hold the distinction
for the smallest floppy
ever used on a production system?
How about the removable storage option of the Ipod Flea?
6:30 p.m.
New subject: small diskettes
At 02:55 PM 12/11/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Does it count if you have to use the special tools to change media?
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>yup, the
2inch drives were built into the Minisport,
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
That's the one! Does this hold the
distinction for the smallest floppy
ever used on a production system?
How about the removable storage option of the Ipod Flea? 
12 Dec
12 Dec
8:53 p.m.
On 12/11/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/10/2005 at 7:48 PM Chris M wrote:
Possibly equal... the Canon Ion digital camera (don't recall the model
number offhand) used 2" floppies too. I remember being utterly
astonished at the microengineering that had gone into that drive
mechanism (the entire mechanism opened up and dropped down when you
ejected the disk).
yup, the 2inch drives were built into the
Minisport,
which had some pretty nifty firmware feature, which
was able to exert control of the command line of
another computer connected by a serial cable.
That's the one! Does this hold the distinction for the smallest floppy
ever used on a production system? 
13 Dec
13 Dec
3:46 p.m.
Possibly equal... the Canon Ion digital camera
(don't recall the model
number offhand) used 2" floppies too. I remember being utterly
astonished at the microengineering that had gone into that drive
mechanism (the entire mechanism opened up and dropped down when you
ejected the disk).
Some information for web searches
The Canon RC-250 "Xap Shot" used 2" VF-50 diskettes
in so-called Hi-VF (Video Floppy) format, which I believe
was analog single frame video. The evolutionary missing link
between the Camcorder and the DigiCam. Not sure if the 2"
diskettes were the same as the digitally formatable ones.
John A.
the things they had to do before flash memory!
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