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Re: First Floppy Disk?

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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