Manuals or other primary source docs concerning smaller-than-3.5 floppy drives/formats

[oktology]

I'm trying to fill out Wikipedia's list of floppy formats, and finding hard information on any of the many failed/unpopular small floppy formats--the Video Floppy, the LT-1, the QuickDisk, the 3-1/4" floppy--is proving to be a real bear.

Wikipedia only accepts primary sources for information, IE, manufacturer publications, interviews with people directly involved in development, etc. There's bits and pieces on various websites and in various magazines, but that's all hearsay without primary sources.

Halp pls!

 

[Chuck(G)]

Don't know if I have any dox, but I have the drives and media for the 3¼" floppies as well as the 2.8" QuickDisk/Data Disk. I guess that doesn't count as a source...

 

[krebizfan]

https://ftp.whtech.com/hexbus_cc40_ti74/ has a manual for the QuickDisk in its very unsuccessful CC40 implementation. Appendix B has technical information. Depressing that the media was only expected to last 2,000 passes.

The Computer History Museum has a Tabor OEM manual. I don't know of any easy to get access to it though.

Sony has several manuals for the old video floppy system still online. Here is a link to one: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/W000/W0007189M.pdf

 

[oktology]

The Computer History Museum has a Tabor OEM manual. I don't know of any easy to get access to it though.

It seems wrong to me somehow for the CHM to have so many documents that are just sitting in an archive somewhere, not doing anyone any good.

 

[krebizfan]

It seems wrong to me somehow for the CHM to have so many documents that are just sitting in an archive somewhere, not doing anyone any good.

The CHM has helped some researchers in the past. Unlike most museums, I can't find a contact point to have an archivist assist in examining a specific item. The general web form is at https://computerhistory.org/collection-requests-contact-form/ but it feels like a form to nowhere.