Reply to post: Re: 3 inch disks

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

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Re: 3 inch disks

I think it was because they were cheap. The drives seem simple. The floppy cases are reversible for single head drives. The 3.5" floppy isn't reversible.

I heard a rumour that the prototype used a cassette tape head. Stereo is about 0.75mm per track?

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