Comments | liam_on_linux: Did the floppy disk, & diskette drives, die before their time?

liam_on_linux

Did the floppy disk, & diskette drives, die before their time?

Jun 05, 2016 15:05

I almost never saw 2.8MB floppy drives ( Read more... )

floppies, media, storage

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liam_on_linux June 6 2016, 14:45:38 UTC

A comment from Chuck Guzis on ClassicCmp points out that ( ... )

anonymous June 8 2016, 02:37:57 UTC

Several improved floppy drives inspired by the ED were announced. Toshiba proposed but never shipped a design that would have taken capacity to about 10 MB. Brier Technology had a design that stored about 20 MB and could read earlier floppy disks with a mechanism that needed two connectors (IDE and floppy). US Patent # 5,434,722 suggests that Brier was planning to read 2.88 MB disks but I don't think the shipping version could.