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

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Amstrad moved 3.5 inches ?

"the contract required Matsushita (or whoever) to keep manufacturing the drives long after they'd have done otherwise."

Matshita was making all kinds of formats, but the 3" one was unique to them/sony and pretty much to Japan+Amstrad. My Sanyo MBC-550 had an option for them that I'm glad I never took (a WHOLE 256 KILObytes of ram!)

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