{"id":350,"date":"2007-08-06T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/350"},"modified":"2007-08-06T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T17:59:28","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-cf2-3-inch-compact-floppy-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/350\/retro-scan-of-the-week-cf2-3-inch-compact-floppy-disk","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"white_caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/cf2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/cf2_small.jpg\" alt=\"3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Sure, you&#8217;ve probably seen plenty of 3.5&#8243; &#8220;micro-floppy&#8221; disks.  But have you ever seen a 3&#8243; compact floppy?  I picked up a stack of these at a thrift store about seven years ago.  The ones I found were once used with an Amstrad computer (strange to find in the US), which unfortunately wasn&#8217;t accompanying the disks at the shop.  Amstrad, the once-prominent British computer manufacturer, used these disks in a few of their computer models (the CPC and PCW, or so I read), and consequently, mainstream usage of 3&#8243; floppies was limited mostly to the UK.  Sony&#8217;s 3.5&#8243; floppy standard took firm hold in the US because of Apple&#8217;s decision to use it in the Macintosh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen an advertisement in an old computer magazine for a 3&#8243; 128k compact floppy drive for the Apple II, one of this format&#8217;s first applications.  Nintendo fans out there might notice similarities between this disk and Nintendo&#8217;s 3&#8243; Famicom Disk System media, but Nintendo&#8217;s disks used a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floppy_disk#Mitsumi.27s_.22Quick_Disk.22_3-inch_floppies\" target=\"_blank\">proprietary format<\/a>  based on a different standard.<\/p>\n<p>A neat history of the 3&#8243; compact floppy disk can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floppy_disk#The_3-inch_compact_floppy_disk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, you&#8217;ve probably seen plenty of 3.5&#8243; &#8220;micro-floppy&#8221; disks. But have you ever seen a 3&#8243; compact floppy? I picked up a stack of these at a thrift store about seven years ago. The ones I found were once used with an Amstrad computer (strange to find in the US), which unfortunately wasn&#8217;t accompanying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}