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   Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 20:29:44 JST Nanoraptor

   It’s a little known fact that early versions of Sony’s revolutionary 3.5” floppy drive were bulky top loading units.

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     Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 20:29:42 JST Trammell Hudson

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     @NanoRaptor https://archive.org/details/Z180PCSeriesLaptopComputersOwnersManualZenithDataSystems1987/page/n23/mode/2up

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     Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 20:29:44 JST Trammell Hudson

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     @NanoRaptor as seen in the Zenith PC180 laptop with dual top-loading floppy drives.

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     Skjeggtroll (skjeggtroll@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 22:01:36 JST Skjeggtroll

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     The main problem with the early Sony floppy drives were that they didn't have any way to rewind the floppies after reading. That wasn't a problem with the old 5.25" floppies which you could just turn over to use on the other side, but you couldn't do that with the new 3.5" floppies. They had to be manually rewound by rotating the platter with your thumb. Annoying with SD disks, and completely impractical with HD disks (which required twice as many revolutions to rewind fully.)

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