"WILLIAM KITCHEN" bravely wrote to "GEORGE WHITE" (10
Oct 03  00:03:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "VEHICLE LED'S"

 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 it's
 > word processor. I've never come across another use of them though...

 WK> I don't know if it's the same ones, but I remember seeing some less
 WK> than 3.5" floppies on some electronic musical instruments in the mid
 WK> to late 1980's.

The Korg SQD-1 Midi Recorder used 3" floppies which they called Quick
Disks (QD). They were very expensive at the time so they were used as
"flippies". Still have a couple of boxes with the machine. The main
problem with these was though they had a tough plastic case similar to
the 3-1/2" diskettes they didn't have a metal sliding cover over the
slot. The hub was plastic and very small. The QD was a nice size though.
Thin memory cards made them obsolete.

 Mike
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... I worked hard to attach the electrodes to it.
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