8" hard sectored floppies

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 16:16:48 2004

Rumor has it that Fred Cisin may have mentioned these words:
> > > > > I'm almost sure I've seen a 16 hard sectored 8 inch disk someplace.
> > > > I suppose that is possible, Dwight, but it may be a surprise to 3M!
> > > Although I do not have any examples handy, it would not surprise
> > > me at all to find out that there exist SOME media that weren't
> > > available from 3M!
>
>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > Stringy floppy?
>
>[snip] I don't think that 3M ever made 3.25" (Dysan and Brown)
>or 3.25" floppies.

I don't think they made 2.8" floppies, either. Dunno what else used 'em,
but at least one model of Tandy word processor used 'em.

And what about 2" floppies - as in the Zenith Minisport?[1] I know Fuji
made some, but did 3M kick some in?

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] And yes, I still wanna hook one of those rascals internal to one of my
CoCos... ;-)

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