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I still remember using my 5.25" floppy disks on my Commodore PC. I haven't seen a blank pack of 3.25's in a while and thought they were already "dead".
by jamesbressi 16y ago
I still remember using my 5.25" floppy disks on my Commodore PC.
I haven't seen a blank pack of 3.25's in a while and thought they were already "dead".
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoI thought it was only the 5.25 disks that were called "floppy" (because they were at least flexible, if not quite floppy). The hard-shelled 3.25's were always just "diskettes" to me since they weren't floppy at all.
- pmccool 16y agoNah, "floppy" was a reference to the media, which was quite flexible for both 5.25 and 3.5 inch disks, despite the different casing.
- electromagnetic 16y agoAgreed, they haven't even entered my mind in over a decade. It's long enough to declare a person legally dead, so I guess it's about time that the floppy has been declared legally dead. RIP my old friend, I once remember installing windows off of 30-something of you.