Reply to post: Re: Amstrad moved 3.5 inches ?

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

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Re: Amstrad moved 3.5 inches ?

I heard somewhere that Amstrad apparently had a really good deal on the 3" format and the contract required Matsushita (or whoever) to keep manufacturing the drives long after they'd have done otherwise.

(Previously I'd also heard that Amstrad got a job lot of them cheap when the format failed, but had *that* been the case, surely they'd have run into availability problems once the existing stock was exhausted?)

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