I haven't seen a 7.5" diskette.
Assuming that the picture is not to scale,...
The floppy doesn't have an index hole.
The notches on the leading edge are consistent (albeit not accurately
placed) with the write-protect notch of an 8" disk.
Further trivia:
On "The Computer Bowl" a few years ago, Bill Gates' entire team could not
state where the write-protect notch was on an 8" diskette!
For our Computer Faire booth, we used to have a 5' inflatable toy
Tyrannosaurus (wearing a valid admission badge as VP of Marketing) holding
an 8" diskette with a bite out of it. One time, a little kid walked up
and said, "that's not real." My assistant said, "that's right, it's just
a plastic inflatable." The kid responded, "not that, you dork, that disk
is fake." Bob said, "No, that's a real diskette; they used to make them
like that." The kid rolled his eyes and said, "yeah. right." and walked
away.
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
> On the original floppy's being in cardboard...
>
> I have a very ancient Dicom 7 1/2 inch dual floppy disk system, and some
> media for those
> bizzare Memorex drives. Indeed, they are made from cardboard. Its been
> impregnated and
> pressed into a composite material, but it clearly is cardboard.
>
> Does anyone on the list know anything about these ancient 7 1/2 inch
> Memorex floppy drives?
>
> John Foust wrote:
>
> >Dear Topco,
> >
> >I've created a web page to publicize and discuss the horrible
> >misinterpretation of the facts of the history of computing
> >as delivered to thousands of kids on your recent box of
> >Corn Puffs. You can see it at:
> >
> >http://www.threedee.com/jcm/cereal/
> >
> >I'd like to talk to the person who wrote and designed this box.
> >I'd like to offer to serve as a consultant to help you design
> >more accurate and more entertaining cereal boxes than this.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >John Foust
> >(920) 674-5200
> >www.threedee.com/jcm
Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 13:03:00 BST