5" floppy?.

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2 Dec 2008 at 11:30, David Cantrell wrote:

> 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.  

You must be referring to the media; the drives themselves were cheap 
tin cans.

Cheers,
Chuck