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He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

Rob Crawford

3 inch disks

The main reason 3 inch discs turned up was because it fitted into a standard Japanese postal envelope.

I remember being told in the 80s that the envelopes that size were free to post.

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