Looks like I was successful in convincing one of the editors to agree to the removal of a sentence in the "floppy disk" article where someone stated that the reason the 3 1/2 inch floppy disk was not marketed as 90 mm was because the public "was not ready" for a metric sized disk.
Given the fact that the public was "ready" for 35 mm film and 2 liter soda bottles, they would have been ready for 90 mm disks, if they had been given metric names from the start. They agreed that the decision to use an ifp designation was to emphasize that it was smaller than the 5 1/4 inch disk, which was the standard storage device on home computers up to that time. Plus the first widely marketed computer with a 3 1/2 floppy drive was the Macintosh, made by an American company. If the disks had been given metric identities from the start, then that's how they would known today, most likely. Stephen Gallagher
