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We 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
by cydonian_monk 15y ago
We 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)