Amdek 3" Floppy Drives

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Interesting...   600rpm?   Wow!

Didn't Seagate/Shugart dabble in 3.5 disk drives early on around 83 or 
84'ish??? 



Curt



Chuck Guzis wrote:

>On 12/12/2005 at 12:21 AM Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
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>>   I have a couple of Amdisk drives, love the little buggers, yeah the 
>>whole 3" drives vs the 3.5"s was weird, its what sank the drives in the 
>>long run as Sony really pushed those drive hard and of course Apple's 
>>adoption of them into its Mac's in 84' then Atari and Amiga following in 
>>85/86 with their systems using 3.5's and eventually IBM catching up in 
>>87' with its PS/2 line.
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>The discussion of 3.5" floppies probably wouldn't be complete wtihout
>mentioning HP.  What follows is a case of IIRC.
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>Sony had originally brought the 3.5" drives out as 40 track 600 RPM
>drives.(OAD-1).  While impressive with their shorter latency, the 600 RPM
>drive was not compatible with existing controllers.  HP adopted the Sony
>3.5" format but standardized on a 300 RPM 80 track drive.
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>Cheers,
>Chuck
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