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   Dezorian to Bill Vermillion   
   Re: 360K or 180K disk drives   
   04 Feb 07 20:36:28   
   
   From: dezorian@shaw.ca   
      
   On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:05:01 +0000, Bill Vermillion wrote:   
      
      
   > On relfecting further I think the Sony CP/M computer used them.   
   > It was a low profile system, and it was used as a controller for   
   > a Sony laser disk player back in 1983 on a project I was called in   
   > for.  It pre-dated the Apple Mac's use of the floppy by several   
   > months, and it seems that most people think the Mac was the first   
   > to use a 3.5" - but 'tis not true.   
      
      
   That wouldn't, by chance, be the Sony SMC-70 or SMC-70G, would it?   
      
   -CJ   
      
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