Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Sep 20 15:06:24 2004

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Ronald Wayne wrote:

> Besides, floppy diskettes are not as uniform as the article implies.
> They seem to suggest that there are two sizes, then leave it at that.
> Well, there were different densities and encodings too. Oh, and there
> were more than two physical sizes. (IIRC, 8" and 12" was common.

I have never heard of a 12" floppy, let alone heard that it is common.
Have you got references/pictures?

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