3.25" diskettes

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sun Dec 11 05:06:27 CST 2005


Chuck Guzis wrote:

> Smith-Corona PWP's used 2.8" diskettes and didn't Zenith offer a 2"
> diskette at one time?

Ah, but the 2.8" disks were the recently-discussed "Quick Disk" drives, 
that read about 128k off one big spiral track.

They showed up in musical equipment quite a lot - old Akai samplers 
(S612, S700), Korg SQD sequencer and the Roland S10 sampler spring to mind.

Ebay link for an S700:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7371548630

Gordon.


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