[PLUG] 5-1/4" Floppy Issue

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 17:20:11 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> It is not only possible, but likely. One of the advantages of the
> (then) new 3-1/2" drives was that they were standardized. The bad old
> 5-1/4" drives were sometimes 360 MB,
....
> Assuming the disk you want to read is for an IBM PC (or clone), which
> at least standardized on 360 MB

This typo, repeated twice, amuses me greatly.

-Ronabop



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