3.25" diskettes

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Joe R. may have mentioned these words:

>    I once took apart a Loral 1553 bus-analyzer that had 3 or 3.25 inch
>drives.

I can't speak for 3.25, but Amdek made (or at least packaged) 3" floppy 
drives/disks for at the very least the Tandy Color Computer. If I'm not 
mistaken (which entirely could be) they were 'electrically compatible' with 
standard (read: IBMish) 5.25" drives. Also IIRC (tho this very well could 
be wrong) Tony at least once mentioned they were available for a UK 
machine... Beeb? Acorn? I *think* Acorn, but don't quote me on that.

What I've always wanted to do (and I have the drives, but not the time to 
do it) was graft one of the 2" floppy drives that came on the Zenith 
MiniSport onto one of my CoCos - internally. I always thought that would be 
neat...

Course, now that CF is cheap & plentiful & there's CoCo IDE interfaces with 
CF slots right on 'em, it wouldn't be very difficult to hack up a 
"big-storage" internal solution on a CoCo nowadays. But 10 years ago, the 
2" 720K floppy seemed to be "the way to go." ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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