Floppy disk sizes ( was Re: Compaq Portable III fails POST? )

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Joe R. wrote:
> At 05:07 PM 8/26/06 -0500, you wrote:
> > --- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Don wrote:

Although mine is the only intact email address in this,
very little of it is mine


>   Yes, 2" as used in the Zenith Mini-Sport laptops. (Reminds me. I need to
> dig mine out and do something with them.)  Also I seem to recall that there
> was a 3.25" floppy but I've never seen one.

Yes, there were multiple 2", multiple 2.5", and multiple 2.9".

3" was Amstrad, Amdek, first Gavilans and a few others.

3.25" was the format that Dysam bet the company on and lost.
At VCF 2000? I gave a way a few dozen of those disks.
I have more, but I don't know where they are.