Post by @TechTangents@dialup.space

2026-05-11 21:59 UTC

Oh yeah, I left this out. That manual does give the drive form factor a designation. But it is "slimline". So...yeah. I'm not going to find many helpful results searching for "slimeline 5.25in drive" here.

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@TechTangents@dialup.space 2026-05-11 22:05

"Slimeline" gets even worse as a name, here's an InfoWorld article calling half height drives "slimline" Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=GzAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61&dq=slimline+floppy+drive&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp9Ze6nrKUAxVIle4BHYaFGxUQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=slimline%20floppy%20drive&f=false

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@vwestlife@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 22:06

@TechTangents@dialup.space I'd call it "two-thirds height", especially if the remaining gap versus a full-height drive is one inch tall, like most 3.5 inch drives and those strange skinny 5.25 inch floppy drives that some OEMs like Compaq and NEC used in the '90s.

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@dec23k@mastodon.ie 2026-05-12 10:55

@TechTangents@dialup.space "Slimeline" is a typo. Slimeline is, as everyone knows, the name of the world's longest-running weekly Goth/Industrial club, which is based in an indoor paintball arena in London England.

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