5" floppy?.

[Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ]

David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:29:45AM +0100, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> 
>> There have been 3" floppies, IIRC used by some (Amstrad?) eletronic
>> typewriters.
> 
> Also in Amstrad computers, and a few other minor 8-bit manufacturers.  I
> believe that Hitachi also used them.
> 
> After they stopped being used in normal computers, they were still used
> in some marine applications for a while, presumably because they were
> more physically robust than 3.5" floppies, and were stocked by some
> chandlers on the east coast of the UK for use in the North Sea fishing
> fleet.  

I used to repair Amstrads in the early 90s in a shop in Aberdeen.  The 
PCW range found a lot of use on oil rigs and fishing boats, because they 
were cheap, fairly tough and could withstand extremely dirty power.  If 
they'd just made them in a slightly more ruggedised case, they'd 
probably still be selling them.

Gordon