3.25-inch floppies

Curt @ Atari Museum curt at atarimuseum.com
Fri Nov 2 11:05:49 CDT 2007


I see Herb has a great amount of content resources...


Does anyone here on the list collect disk drives specifically?     
Especially all of the very early 3.5" drives?    I've wanted to find 
several of the first Seagate/Shugart 3.5" drives as well as the early 
Epson versions.


Curt



Alexandre Souza wrote:
>> 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.
>
>    MSX with 3.25 disks? Is that the QD drive?
>



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