5" floppy?.

[Chris Elmquist]

On Monday (11/24/2008 at 09:35AM -0000), Antonio Carlini wrote:
> 
> I tripped over this page (discussing Max Burnett's collection):
> 
> http://www.acs.org.au/ictcareers/index.cfm?action=show&conID=max
> 
> and this part confused me:
> 
> "A local Intel executive recently found his family tree on a 5in floppy,
> but even in the citadel of chip development, anything that could read
> the disk had long since gone for scrap. "A couple of clicks" and Max had
> it back on a modern floppy"
> 
> Was there a 5" floppy format? I wouldn't be surprised to find out yet
> another format that I've never come across before, but I don't recall it
> cropping up here.

I think there were a lot of typos in that article and the captions under
the pictures.  When I first looked at it, one of the pictures showed
someone holding up a 9" floppy.  I was going to send a link to that
just to keep the fun rolling on this thread...  but when I went back
later in the day, the caption had been corrected to say 8".  Dang.
That's no fun.

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Chris Elmquist
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