Hi Roy,

On 09-Oct-03, Roy J. Tellason wrote to George White:

 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...

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

How would I know? As I said above, I've never come across another use
of them. The only musical instrument I've seen with a floppy is the
fully loaded Fairlight a friend of mine has, that uses 5.25 disks.

George

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