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As someone already pointed out, there were several competing formats between two and four inches.
Besides, a so-called 3.5" disk is actually a 90 millimetre disk. That's what the spec has for the measurements.
Now some vendors didn't know that, converted 3.5 inches and came up with 89 millimetres. WTF!
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I don't think it's AB that's doing this...I've never had a problem from work before, anywhere, and am currently running our corporate install of IE8 w/ no add-blocking ad-ons. No images here.
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Not true: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/google-porn-in-the-plex_n_849034.html
So there you go. Not only did Google pay people to look at porn, they gave them a god damn cookie for it.
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I think they were referring to the 3" Amstrad/Speccy/Osborne format. That one used super-expensive diskettes that had more moving parts than a VHS cassette, including a complex metal shutter which was INTERNAL to the diskette's casing and could only be opened by a lever buried on either side of the diskette (there were two independent shutters). Compared to THAT, the Dysan format was surely less complex.
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So either:
Oh yeah, there's a surprise 4th option:
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Okay, I took the first ThoughtWare unit assessment and the result is below. Now what?
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OK. We're going to go ahead and update our non-existant AdBlock software.
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Not a possibility where I work. (Seriously)
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There's no signal that indicates whether or not a line is active. A modem, like any analog transmitter / receiver, listens for a carrier signal, so all you have to do is stop sending that.
The exchange knows when you've hung up because the circuit is physically broken and they detect a voltage drop, but all the other caller gets is a spoofable click of static.
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And they're missing that really hot meditating woman.
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I just googled xor corporation thoth and the #1 hit was an Infoworld article from 1983 talking about Timothy Leary of all people and his relationship with the XOR Corporation.
(Maybe that explains the ad...)
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My pure soul recoils at the iniquity.
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3 1/4 ??? Actually there were quite a few ~3 inch drives that tried for the market. There was a 3" that had a 5 1/4 style envelope and a metal hub (no shutter), there was the one that made it, but you had to manually push back the shutter on the early ones and it locked open until you squeezed the right front corner and released it. There was one that had a rigid shell, but a open hub like the 5 1/4. HP picked the one that won out and seemed to make the difference, then Apple picked it for the Lisa, followed by the Mac later.
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Amstrad and many early "pc's" used the 3 1/4 " floppy drives, which fittd into the keyboard console, manufactured by SONY I believe. Lost out to the more readly available 3 1/2" units used on IBM PC and clones.
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Even with the images they don't make any sense.
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Actually, Amstrad used the Hitachi "3-inch" floppy on their 8-bit machines: the CPC series, the PCW and the Spectrum+3. I remember seeing these and wondering why they had picked that particular format, given that everyone else seemed to have picked the Sony 3 1/2 format instead...
Time passed, and there was some significant announcement - the last manufacturer of 3-inch disks declared an end to production or something equally notable. Shortly after, on a British computer show, the presenter ( Tony Bastable ? ) asked Alan Sugar if Amstrad would be offering any form of trade-in or reduced price to existing customers who now wanted a 3 1/2 inch drive...
The look on Alan Sugar's face was exactly the same as if someone had said something rude about his mother. His reply was: "NO" and then an additional "NO" for emphasis...
( possibly in the same episode - but certainly the same series - was Bastable talking to the late Guy Kewney. They were looking at a new machine that wasn't on public display as apparently the manufacturer was embarassed that it showed up their existing range... it was the first Amiga... )
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RE: Dysan 3 1/4 floppy disc.
They were submitted to whatever the standards organization was in the early/mid 80's for approval as the successor to the 5 1/4 floppy. The 3 1/4 inch was never sold to the public as far as I remember. I was the purchasing manager for Dysan at that time. Dysan was purchased by a competitor shortly after that. I have a "3 1/4 Flex Diskette" sitting on my bookshelf in a nice setup box. Any bidders? <g>
http://www.mediafire.com/PrimitiveSoftware (free and commercial excel programs)
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Brazzy, Wikipedia does mention 3 1/4 disks, briefly, in an obscure location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk Search for "Dysan" for a brief mention of this being a Dysan and Shugart system that flopped (pun intended).
Check out the second and third pictures at http://www.regnirps.com/SEF/oddities.htm This guy actually has both drive and disk!
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according to this wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk the 3¼ disk is not just a case of mixing up numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:325disk.jpg
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Would someone please be kind enough to explain the logic behind the 825 character limit to the size of a note in Thoth?
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3.25 vs 3.5 was a real question in the mid 80's. I even have a whitepaper [somewhere] from HP saying why they think 3.5 would win.
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The "hub" is the ring in the centre of the "floppy". The drive would grab hold of the ring, spin it, and that caused the soft magnetic surface to rotate.
A "rigid metal shutter" is used to enclose the media in the drive.
They're different parts.
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