Odd floppy drives (Helitron)

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Odd floppy drives (Helitron)
>   From: "John Allain" <allain at panix.com>
>   Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:30:15 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> He claims that he was the inventor of the basic 
>> floppy mechanism ... This was around 1980, maybe 1979. 
>
>69 ~ 70?
>I mean, by 1980 floppies were down to 5.25" and the 8"
>had been out well over 5 years.  Maybe the guy with the 
>knob drive was lying even harder than you suspected.
>
>John A.

Definately older than 1974.

The oddest I'd seen was Ionovex The mech was about 8" high and about as wide
but the media was a web of mylar with oxide and the head spun under it with
a variable radius.  Strange affair.  I got to see it as bare drive but never
as part of a system.

Allison