From: <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:54 PM
14" drives - full rack width, with room for some
casting on either side.
8" drives - two side-by-side in a rack width. (Perfect fit, in fact.)
8" drives - 8.55"W x 4.50H full height, 8.55"W x 2.28"H half height.
5.25" drives - probably completely unconstrained
by rack widths. I
think a recent document on bitsavers details the IBM DemiDiskette,
which was something like 4" :-).
Height of a FH 5.25" drive is the same as an 8" drive.
5.25" drives - 5.75"W x 3.25"H for full height, 5.75"W x 1.63"H
for
half-height.
3.5" drives - ???? No idea
3.5" drives - 4"W x 1"H
There was a joke in BYTE in the early 80's about
diskette manufacturers
keeping the punched out "holes" from each size of floppy for use
as future floppy sizes :-).
Tim.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com