Dear Stephen, Unfortunately floppy disks were marketed in Australia not in their original designed sizes but rather in the sizes that were dumbed down for the USA market.
The 90�millimetre disk was marketed as a 3 1/2" floppy, despite the fact that it was designed and made as a 90�millimetre disk. One of the key components of this fiasco was directly built in to the Microsoft Windows software where the name of the 90�millimetre disk appeared as a 3 1/2" and I believe that this was very difficult (impossible) to change to its real size. I know � I tried. The 5 1/4" disk, as I heard the (probably apocryphal) rumour, was designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at a lunch one day. The story goes that when they discussed how big a floppy disk should be, one of them picked up a folded serviette and said, "It should be about this big'. They then took the serviette back to work and used it for a model. As to the original dimensions of the serviette, I can only guess that it looks a lot like a 400�millimetre serviette folded into three. But this is purely conjecture on my part. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2004-05-22 02.45, Stephen Gallagher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody know how 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch floppy > disks were marketed in Australia. Were they marketed > with metric or imperial sizes and, more importantly, > how does/did the public refer to them. > > Just wondering. > > Stephen > > P.S. This may have been posted twice. Sorry. >
