What used these?

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Mar 7 19:43:42 2001

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Tom Uban wrote:

> I picked these up a number of years ago and in sorting through
> some of my stuff, I rediscovered them. They seem to be an early
> version of a 3.5" floppy disk system, before what we know today
> as a 3.5" floppy became standard.
>
<...>
>
> Note, one of the disks is labeled 3 1/4".
>
> The fact that Dysan made a disk for this thing leads me to
> believe that someone must have used it.

They are 3.25" drives. Dysan was trying to compete with the Sony 3.5".
Guess who won?

Fred will be able to expand upon this.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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