Date   : Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:56:36 +0000
From   : "A. J. Davis" <mail@...>
Subject: Re: Newsnight aired 2005/11/08

Darren Grant wrote:

>On 10/11/05 2:04 pm, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <beeb@...> wrote:
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>>What had 2" ?
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>>Dave
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>2" drives were installed in a 1980's sampler keyboard that used 2" disks. I
>can't remember the model number but I also remember there was a Zenith
>portable computer and some sort of word processor system possibly
>smith-corona.
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>Never really took off.
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Also known as Quik Disks.  There were a couple of QuikDrives produced, 
possibly by Olivetti, for the Spectrum and C64.  But, they were mainly 
in synths.  I had to buy disks for my QD from a musical instruments 
shop.  I think they were about 2.5" wide, possibly a little more.