Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies
Hasitha Helappriya
April 03, 2012
Another 3-inch format was Mitsumi's Quick Disk format. The Quick Disk format is referred to in various size references: 2.8-inch, 3-i...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The 3-inch compact floppy disk
Hasitha Helappriya
March 20, 2012
Throughout the early 1980s the limitations of the 5¼-inch format were starting to become clear. Originally designed to be smaller and mo...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The "Twiggy" disk
Hasitha Helappriya
March 08, 2012
In the early '80s, Apple fell victim to a serious case of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here), and decided to manufacture their own di...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The 5¼-inch mini floppy
Hasitha Helappriya
March 01, 2012
In a 1976 meeting, An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates' Jim Adkinson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was...
