3.25-inch floppies

[jvdg at sparcpark.net]

Jason T wrote:

> Not sure if any computer ever used them, but I remember having an old
> Akai sampler that used a bizarre "Quickdisk" format.  The sampler is
> long gone, but somewhere I have one or two of the disks, which will be
> handy should I ever try to create a magnetic media display of some
> sort.  I think they measured...2.75" (?) and held...not much at all.

They were used on some MSX home computers, although I have only ever read about them (and seen pictures). I don't think they were commonplace outside of Japan and Korea. They were sort of a cross between tape and disk media; data was written sequentially in a spiral pattern on the disk.

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