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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:07PM (#18834580)
Huh, is this true even outside the US? As in, did people in the UK call them 3.5 inch floppy disks, just like us Americans?
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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by RL_Quine on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:15PM (#18834621)
Yes. Only a few things proliferate in inches, but products that are defined in inches always do. Subway sandwiches are a mixture, in the netherlands they are 30cm (an extra 30mm), in other metric countries they remain as a footlong.
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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by stan_rogers on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:46PM (#18835181)
30cm leaves you 4.8mm short of a foot. This is how we lose spacecraft.
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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by BlackLotus89 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:16PM (#18834627)
In germany it was called "3 1/2 Zoll Diskette/Floppy" so yeah we didn't use the word inch, but I can confirm that this was true at least for us.
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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by rzzzt on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:47PM (#18835188)
"Zoll" is a direct translation from "inch". Inches were used when measuring wood.

The actual size was different from region to region, because there was no agreement on whether it is 1/10 or 1/12 of a feet, and 1 foot itself would correspond to different lengths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_German_units_of_measu...

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