A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk

Byte Cellar ^ | 25FEB19 | Blake Patterson

[C19fan]

I am 50 and this is the first time I read about a 3” floppy.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

You broke it...Now your Lotus 123 won’t work.

[Red Badger]

Ping!..........

[Redleg Duke]

Actually, it was 3.5” floppy, a tremendoun improvement over the 5 1/4” floppy.

The Zip Drive followed, but read/write CDs killed it.

[Yo-Yo]

From the article:

No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ahhhh....Ultima IV. Such fun. Hours of wasted time.

"Appar Unem!"

[ShadowAce]

[Vermont Lt]

I loved Lotus.

I was a 1-2-3 whiz. That kept me employed for a few years. When I finally moved to Excel, it was like losing a good friend.

[ShadowAce]

You got trapped again by not reading the article :)

[Redleg Duke]

First I heard of the 3”.

[circlecity]

Remember Bill Gates’ words - “Windows isn’t done till Lotus won’t run.”

[Redleg Duke]

Well, then throw my worthless ass off of this site!

I have been accused of being a liberal because I criticize the “conservative purists”! This is proof positive!

[bigbob]

You could put a camera in one of those, but then you couldn’t post it here.

[bigbob]

Reading comprehension.

[wally_bert]

I used Lotus some but would be lost in it now.

However, I get to contend with Lotus Notes.

[struggle]

NAND Flash is flipping capacity so fast it’s unreal.

[Blue Highway]

I remember getting my first PC in December of 1996. I was seduced by the then new technologies of super floppys. I hemmed and hawed but never bought one but I lusted after those Imation LS-120 Super Drives and the Caleb iT 144 drives. They were theoretically superior to the ZIP drives at the time but the market was already saturated with Iomega products. I did invest in the SyQuest drives which WERE superior to the ZIP or JAZZ drives by Iomega. The SyJet discs held 1.5GB each which then was massive! The Iomega Jazz only held 1gb.

I also later on in the later 90s or early 2000s bought a couple of those Castlewood Orb drives on eBay as those cartridges held 2.2gb.

[Yo-Yo]

Me too. I remember Sony’s 3.5” floppy, which I used tons of during my Amiga 500 days, and I remember Zip and Jazz drives that were handy before thumb drives go so much capacity.

I guess that’s why this article was titled “A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk.”

[MrEdd]

Bah.
Humbug.

I want to throw rocks at an undead Fred.
That’s a true CRPG.