Actually, it's really a non-issue.
These days, if you say "floppy drive" or "diskette drive," it's understood
to be the 90 mm format. It's several years since the larger format was sold.
A few months ago, I threw out a couple of hundred of the older, really
floppy disks. And it's nearly two years since I gave away my only computer
(an 8 Mbyte, 20 MHz 286, capable of running only DOS or Windows 3.1 in
Standard Mode) with both types of diskette drive, as I no longer had a
requirement to convert from one format to the other. The last computer I
scrapped (32-Mbyte, 40 MHz 386, with Windows 95) only ever had the 90 mm
format.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of M R
> Sent: January 09, 2001 13:45
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10378] Fwd: RE: 3.5 inch floppy disk
>
>
> Hi Leonardo
>
> Whether you say it as
> "Three and half" (3 words) or
> "Three point five" (3 words),
> both are lengthier in inches than
> "ninety" (1 word) or "nine" (1 word)
> in mm and cm respectively.
>
> So both 90 mm and 9 cm are easy to use than inches.
>
> No idea how the Japanese (who invented the 90 mm
> floppy) and the French (who invented the metric) use
> it.
>
> I think Sony invented this floppy.
>
> Rgds
>
>
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