Floppy disks again

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Mon Oct 4 16:43:34 1999

Eric wrote:
>Allison wrote about 5.25 inch diskettes with small (35-track) head windows:
>> I have em. Both 10 sector NS* format (no even for $20 I dont give them
>> up) and also some of my TI99/4a likely others that I'd have bought around

>Wow! What brand of diskettes were they? All the NS diskettes I've seen
>have the standard windows, but I think they were just 3M and Verbatim
>diskettes.

The first 5.25" floppies I ever used were actually Shugart brand.
After all, they were the only company selling 5.25" drives at the time.

(Similarly, all my early 8" floppies are IBM brand.)

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