On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:27 AM, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > I've been contacted by a teacher who's looking for any information about > > 12" floppies. Am I imagining that they really existed? I'm sure I've seen > > one or seen adverts for them, maybe at Bletchley Park. Others he's > > contacted think he's getting confused with 12" laser discs but I'm not so > > sure. > > First I've heard of them :-) > > I wonder if he's thinking of the 14" hard disk cartridges, perhaps the > front loading > ones used in things like the RK05 drive. I have the platters from one of these drives. One of the "youngsters" brought in platters from a 5 1/4" drive to show off his IT cred. Then one of the older youngsters brought in a ~9" platter from some SMD drive. I brought in the ~14" platter from a very old DEC drive that crashed (RK04 sticks in my head, but I might be wrong). Perhaps this is what he's thinking about? Warner
