5" floppy?.

[Chuck Guzis]

On 24 Nov 2008 at 13:10, Mr Ian Primus wrote:


> That's what I would bet on. While the knowledge that diskettes come in
> three primary sizes (8", 5 1/4" and 3 1/2") is common among us geeks,
> the general population has entirely forgotten about 8" disks, and
> refers to 5 1/4" disks as "those big bendy disks", "five inch disks",
> or similar. Remember all the people that called 3 1/2" disks "hard
> disks"?

Why don't those metrificated folks outside of the US talk about 133 
mm, 89 mm and 203 mm floppies?  What German has even seen an inch 
rule?

Cheers,
Chuck