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Started by dcdrac, 15:24, 12 January 14

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MacDeath

#50
a 3incher can't be a bad machine... unless it is a speccy off course... :laugh:


(Well, spectrum+3 is the best speccy anyway)

Anyway what machiens were 3inchers ?

CPC of course. PCW...speccy+3,  Tatung einstein, ORIC?... Enterprise64/128 perhaps ?

Quote3-inch drives were also used on a number of exotic and obscure CP/M systems such as the Tatung Einstein and occasionally on MSX systems in some regions. Other computers to have used this format are the more unknown Gavilan Mobile Computer and Matsushita's National Mybrain 3000. The Yamaha MDR-1 also used 3-inch drives.
Yamaha MDR-1...
Yamaha MDR-1 Manual
what a classy smooth MF...

Galivan... WTF ?

Gavilan SC computer




what else ?
I think some Sega computer used 3" but not the same actually... or was it Nintendo's family computer ?

Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies


sauce : History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

McKlain

QuoteThe Disk System's Disk Cards were somewhat proprietary 71 mm × 76 mm (2.8x3 in) 56K-per-side double-sided floppy. These "Disk Cards," as they are officially called, were a slight modification of Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 89 mm 2.8 in square disk format which was used in a handful of Japanese computers and various synthesizer keyboards, along with a few word processors. Some of the QuickDisk drives even made it into devices in Europe and North America, though they were somewhat rare. Mitsumi already had close relations with Nintendo, as it manufactured the Famicom and NES consoles, and possibly other Nintendo hardware.

Gryzor


McKlain

The name is also cool. It's spanish for sparrowhawk.

Devilmarkus

#54
Yeah but the Gavilan has a 3,5" floppy disk drive ;)

QuoteThe Gavilan featured 3.5-inch floppy drive, a 400 X 64 pixel LCD screen, an innovative touch-pad "mouse", and an internal 300-baud modem.


Edit: Humm... Gryzor's link tells about a 3" drive... So what's right now?
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Gryzor

Wikipedia also says it had a 3" drive. This also says 3". So... 

Devilmarkus

Both are correct ;)

QuoteGavilan was designed to accommodate both a 3.0-inch 320K microfloppy drive as well as a 3.5-inch floppy drive.
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Hey!


One of those would make the perfect machine for dumping 3" disks  ;D

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