three and a quarter inch floppy?

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:41 +0000, Adrian Graham wrote:
> > > 31/4 drives were used on the old Amstrad word processing 
> > > machines (forget the number - do any of the other UK members know?

PCW8256?


> > 
> > They were (I think Hitachi) 3" drives that were going to be 'the next big
> > thing'. 
> 
> Yep, I remember them being 3" too. I hate to think how many drive belts
> I've replaced on them when I worked for a repair place many years ago.

The Amstrad drives were certainly belt-driven (and replacing the belt was 
a common job). The Hitachi drives I've used (single and double head) had 
direct-drive spindle motors, though.

-tony