On 2 Sep 2009, at 04:49, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
* Implementing 3.5" hard disk floppies when they were not standard
in the market, but contained more data storage. This was a product
design and technology decision, and certainly did not help customers
out of the gate since it could hard to find these disks when the
first Macs shipped.
Just to be sad and techie for a bit...
More storage wasn't the only (or maybe not even the main) advantage of
the 3.5" floppy (and the similar 3" floppy that I don't think ever
made it into machines outside of the UK in the 80's.)
Indeed there were 5.25" floppy formats that met or exceeded the
storage size of the 3.5" floppy at the time Apple stuck it in their
machines.
For me the big advantage was
1) impossible to eject mid-read/write causing data loss and possible
damage to drive & disk (folk were _always_ doing this in my experience)
2) Due to the covered nature of the disk - much harder to get crud in
disk and onto drive - again avoiding damage to disk & drive
Cheers,
Adrian (who was very happy to see the back of 8" and 5.25" floppies
back in the day :)
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