Date   : Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:08:00 +0000
From   : Darren Grant <darren.grant@...>
Subject: Re: Newsnight aired 2005/11/08

On 10/11/05 9:56 pm, "A. J. Davis" <mail@...> wrote:
>> 
>> 2" drives were installed in a 1980's sampler keyboard that used 2" disks. I
>> can't remember the model number but I also remember there was a Zenith
>> portable computer and some sort of word processor system possibly
>> smith-corona.
>> 
>> Never really took off.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
> Also known as Quik Disks.  There were a couple of QuikDrives produced,
> possibly by Olivetti, for the Spectrum and C64.  But, they were mainly
> in synths.  I had to buy disks for my QD from a musical instruments
> shop.  I think they were about 2.5" wide, possibly a little more.
> 
Well done! that was it and they were in fact 2.8" The keyboard was the
Roland S10. At least I have that answered now as it was bugging me.