Amiga was very well known back in its Amiga 500 days. Everyone I knew, knew what an Amiga 500 was. To me they seemed a similar flop compared to 3DFX (and the question is, how 'floppy' are they?).
kreats wrote:2.88mb floppies - wouldn't call it fascination tho
To me they always were from the moment I first learned about them and it was a real pain finding the actual hardware, even back in the days the systems these were supposedly most frequently used in, were being disposed and noone cared about old computers in those days.
So even though the circumstances were much more favorable at finding these drives for a good price, I'd roughly guess that there was a 2.88MB PC floppy drive for 1000 of any of the other floppy drives. The vast majority of 2.88 floppy drives I did find, were the IBM ones (with those oversized blue eject buttons 😜). Even many of the sellers selling either new hardware or old hardware (or even both) had never even heard of 2.88 floppy drives and the ones that did, thought they were a purely IBM-hardware thingy.
Anyway, LS-120 also fascinated me, but it was really very slow 🤣! ZIP of course also fascinated me and was by far the easiest to find (followed by a distance by Superdisk, the others were virtually impossible to find), though many of the old drives were already clocked to death (I skipped buying all drives which had their read-write heads in odd angles, I checked with a bicyclelight 😜).
Minidisk also fascinated me, but I always wanted a data variant, but when that one finally came, I was hardly as interested in those anymore as I had much better alternatives by that time.
I kinda liked those 3.5in CDROM/DVD disks, always had wanted a 3.5in optical drive to be made, though I know there's not really any good economical reason to actually have build such drives.
There's probably more that I forgot about 😁