>If you had a 20 kilobyte Word file or perhaps even a few smallish image files that you wanted to transfer, a floppy would of course be much, much more convenie

>If you had a 20 kilobyte Word file or perhaps even a few smallish image files that you wanted to transfer, a floppy would of course be much, much more convenient than going through all the trouble of burning a CD. Well, later there was DVD-RAM which was essentially random-writable block device DVD. Orignally they even had floppy-like caddies: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/DVD-RAM_FUJIFILM_Disc-removalble_With_cartridge-locking-pin.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/DVD-RAM_...