Re: First Floppy Disk?

["Amardeep S Chana" <asc1000@ibm.net>]

Not odd at all.  The original TRS-80 Model I used 5.25" single density
drives with 82K capacity.  The Model II was targeted for business use and
needed 600K+ per drive, which could only be achieved at the time using 8"
double density technology.

Doug Browning wrote in message <3706A4F4.BEFF1DBB@mb.imag.net>...
>That's odd... Why would the model II use older technology than the model I.
One
>would expect it to be the other way around.
>
>Pat McNeil wrote:
>
>> Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net> wrote in article
>> <370554C3.694AF975@mb.imag.net>...
>> > Don't know who invented them, but I remember seeing floppy drives (8")
on
>> the
>> > original trs-80 computers.
>>
>> Not quite. The Model I had 5.25" diskettes. The model II, which came out
>> later, used the 8" disks.
>>
>> Pat McNeil
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>Doug Browning