3.17 cm Floppy Diskettes? Radio Shack Canada Was Bad At Math

Ken from Canadian Retro Things obtained a box of 3.17 cm floppy disks. Okay, really they were standard 5.25 inch disks, but why did they say 3.17 cm on them? Blame Canada! Or at least Radio Shack Canada. We'll explore the use of Metric and Imperial measurements in Canada, how to spell the word "colour", and give Robin a chance to show his French skills again. And we'll do some unit conversion on a Radio Shack VFD calculator and a Colour Color Computer 3 (aka CoCo3) to solve the mystery. Thanks to Ken (for the disks), Vladimir (for the math), and Jason (for the sign pics)!

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Index:
0:00 3.17cm disks? Why I care.
2:40 Radio Shack Canada
4:03 Metrication in Canada
5:55 Calculator Time
8:34 Canadian English
9:50 Ken from Canadian Retro Things
11:33 How did this happen? CoCo Time
16:30 Thanks!