FAQ

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat Apr 19 06:07:38 1997

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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