George White wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> Change shape?  To what?

 JB>> something pocket sized probably.

 RJT> Now *that* would make sense.  I read somewhere that the 3.5"
 RJT> floppy was chosen because it would fit in a shirt pocket.  Seems
 RJT> to me I remember vaguely that there were also 3" and 4" media
 RJT> around at that time,  now long gone

 GW> There were 3" floppies, I've got some here! Amstrad used them in
 GW> it's word processor. I've never come across another use of them
 GW> though... 

Is that the weird ones I've seen in some musical equipment,  where you flip
them over?  Those drives were often a problem...

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