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I remember my dad having a Zenith MinisPort with a 2" floppy drive. Even as a kid I remember thinking "Ok these are just ridiculously small." The OP is also th
by ebbv 15y ago
I remember my dad having a Zenith MinisPort with a 2" floppy drive. Even as a kid I remember thinking "Ok these are just ridiculously small."
The OP is also the author of the article, so I'm not surprised he went and fixed it. But I'm a little miffed he didn't even give me a thank you.
- cydonian_monk 15y agoWe stumbled upon either a 2" or 2.5" floppy early in my college career. None of us had ever heard of such a beast - it was a bit like alien tech landing in our laps. We figured it was "the future" and that smaller floppies would see mass-adoption, as some sort of CD-killer. Then our professor destroyed our dream world and said they'd died off in the 80s. (And then wisely predicted flash-like memory would kill off all of them.)
- DanBC 15y agoThere's a wide range of weird floppy sizes. Perhaps one of the best known was sold for the Amstrad PCW - a popular word processing system. (This machine kept CP/M alive during the 80s and into the early 90s.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW). There were others. Here's a 2" drive - yet another failed Sony media format. (What's their ratio of successful : failed formats?) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Floppy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Floppy)