On: The floppy disk just won’t die

[kevin_thibedeau]

There were 2.88 drives in non-PS/2 machines. They were just incredibly rare.

[midoridensha → kevin_thibedeau]

Yes, that's correct. Like some other things in PS/2 machines (such as the MCA bus), they weren't entirely closed to other vendors, and IBM was trying to push the 2.88s as the new floppy standard, but they never caught on like the other standards IBM pushed before then when IBM had more clout.