I started out with a Xerox computer that had two 8-inch floppies. Next was
a Zenith, with 5-1/4" floppies. Then, I graduated to the small, hard-cased
floppy which I just measured as 3-1/2". I'm sure this is what Andrew refers
to.
Since I wanted to make "sneaker" transfers between my wife's stand-alone
machine and my main PC, I spent the few bucks to add the 3-1/2" floppy
drive. I might even have another in a junk box, if I could find it.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:57 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Old stuff
> No wonder you don't have a reader. Floppy discs come in 3-1/2", 5-1/4"
> and 8" diameters. You'll be alookin' for a long time for that 3-1/4" job.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> Had a nice experience the other day. An old friend of mine, in his
>> mid seventies, gave me some old cameras as he's moving house and
>> cleaning out.
>> One was the first camera he owned, an original early 1950's Lubitel -
>> all bakelite and cyrillic.
>> As a schoolboy he bought it new and paid for it by taking pictures of
>> fellow students - boys for their girlfriends and vice versa.
>> He apologised that the name plate was separate. Around that time the
>> Petrov Affair occurred (nasty shenanigans with a defecting Russian
>> diplomat), at an early peak of the Cold War and he kept getting grief
>> from people over having what was clearly a commie-cam. He pulled the
>> metal name plate off but still had it.
>> I tried not to take it but he insisted.
>> Just cleaned it up and put the name plate back on so I'm off to run a
>> film through it.
>>
>> Incidentally, he also gave me a Mavica, the type that uses a 3.25"
>> floppy disc.
>> All working fine but I haven't had a bloody disc reader in years so
>> it's far less useable than a 60 year old film camera!
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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