3.25" diskettes

[Fred Cisin]

> > I was chatting with someone else who prides himself on computer arcana and
> > I mentioned that I had some 3.25" diskettes and drives.  >
> > How rare are these things?
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Nico de Jong wrote:
> well, in my 20+ years in media conversion, I've never come across one.

We've discussed 3.25" before.

The Seequa Chameleon 325 was the only machine that I ever saw that came
with one. (in my 25+ years of media conversion :-)

But there were a lot added to other machines, including PC, by software
publishers in preparation for something that never came together.

On 9/24/2005 at 9:52 AM Fred Cisin wrote:
> The Dysan 3.25" was kinda neat.  Dysan bet the company that the
> "shirt pocket"  disk (3", 3.25", 3.5", 3.9") that would succeed
> would be the one with software availability.
and they didn't want to do complete retooling
> So, they overextended
> themselves creating a software publishing/distribution company
> providing MOST of the big popular software titles on 3.25".
> 'Course George Morrow said that the solution was to cut a deal with
> the clothing industry to enlarge shirt pockets to 5.25" or even 8".

I have a drive, and used to have some extra Micropro diskettes (including
alignment disks!) that I gave away.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com