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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by blattimwind on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:22AM (#18838174)
> Floppy disks are tech from the US though, and everything about them is hence in inches, from physical specs to tech specs, so the metric docs translate the units.

Do read the specs someone else linked in this thread. All major dimensions are even metric measurements and thus are not even imperial measurements.

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Re:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a seri... by a11595 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:46AM (#18863565)
yes, because the document is from Europe for a device created in California. A European document is going to be in metric. That is what the OP was pointing out - that the document is European. The US document, the original one with the specs, would be in inches. I would recommend looking up the acronym ECMA.
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