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From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu May 27 22:49:42 2004

> 2). Another lady called because the update disk we sent her was defective.
> We sent her a 5 1/4" Disk and she cut it down to fit in her 3 1/2" drive and
> stuck it in there.

About 20 years ago, some machines over here used 3" (not 3.5") disks. The
drives were cheap, but the disks were more expensive than the 3.5" type.

Anyway, I hought one of the drives and used it as a second drive on my
OS-9 box (a much hacked CoCo II). One day I needed some more disks. I
went to the computer shop to buy some and asked for 3" disks.

I was told "Oh, we don't have any 3" disks. We've got 3.5" disks, can you
cut them down". I was then offered 3" disks at the 3.5" disk price.
Needless to say I bought rather a lot of them.

-tony
Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 22:49:42 BST