19 Apr
1997
19 Apr
'97
8:07 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
The *first* micro floppy was 3" in width. Yes,
you heard me correctly.
Amdek designed and built a SSDD 3" floppy drive around 1983-84 (or so...
I'll have to look) that used it's own style of media (and it was flippy,
unlike the 3.5" of today) and they interfaced it to and marketed it for two
computers that I know of:
The Radio Shack (Tandy) Color Computer, and
The Atari 800.
Also used on the Oric computers (Oric-1, Oric Atmos and Oric Telestrat
[aka Stratos]) and the Amstrad CPC, PCW and CPC Plus series.
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