Subject: Re: Where can one find 2.5 inch floppy disks, and other odd sizes

From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed Apr 16 21:29:55 2003

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <[email-masked]>
>
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Kurtk7 wrote:
>> The 8" disks are not so much a problem, but from what I can tell, there were
>> 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, 3.25, and 4.0 inch formats and finding even one example

I don't know that 8 inch were all that regular. You have 16
hard sectored and 32 hard sectored. You even have a hard sectored with
the holes around the outside of the disk instead of the center.
Now, add single/double density and single/double sided.
Dwight

>
>Also:
>2.9"
>3.9" 
>
>and, of course,
>5.25" (soft-sector, hard-sector (10 and 16), twiggy)
>3.5"  (early ones without shutter, manual shutter, one-way shutter,
>floptical)