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2.88 was pushed by IBM with their PS/2 line that tried to push the clones out of the market and take over with their own, very expensive, and completely proprie
by midoridensha 4y ago
2.88 was pushed by IBM with their PS/2 line that tried to push the clones out of the market and take over with their own, very expensive, and completely proprietary PC computers. They came with 2.88MB drives, but no one else adopted them, or most other technologies included in the PS/2 line. So the disks stayed expensive and uncommon, and went nowhere.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThere were 2.88 drives in non-PS/2 machines. They were just incredibly rare.
- midoridensha 4y agoYes, that's correct. Like some other things in PS/2 machines (such as the MCA bus), they weren't entirely closed to other vendors, and IBM was trying to push the 2.88s as the new floppy standard, but they never caught on like the other standards IBM pushed before then when IBM had more clout.