Edited sentence: A number of the managers later left Burroughs to form Rodime.In 1975, Burroughs' plant in Glenrothes, Scotland developed a 5¼ floppy format after seeing a demonstration by IBM's business machine division of a new dictation machine using this format.The new drive was much less expensive than the larger 8-inch versions, leading management to cancel the project in fear it would sell at too low a price point to be worthwhile.They were also attempting to deal with the problem of asymmetric expansion of the larger 8-inch disks caused by changing humidity, which would effect a smaller disk to a lesser degree