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In Dutch, we always talked about 'diskettes', when talking about the rigid 3.5" disks. The large 5.25" were called floppies. Diskettes were called floppies too
by louwrentius 6y ago
In Dutch, we always talked about 'diskettes', when talking about the rigid 3.5" disks. The large 5.25" were called floppies. Diskettes were called floppies too sometimes, but never the other way around.
I'm from the time frame in which I never saw 8 inch floppies.
The 5.25" were on the way out, many PCs had both 1.44 and 1.2 MB drives for a while.
/rambling
- unixhero 6y agoIt was/is the same rule in English also. Cheers.
- airhead969 6y ago8" were very floppy. ;-) We, in Silicon Valley, used "floppies" to mean "5.25 or 3.5 inch disks." (Confusing, yes?) And, we used "disks" to mean "any type of storage media, fixed or removable." Also, "diskettes" meant "the formal name of 3.5 inch floppies." I think this is the same nomenclature.
- louwrentius 6y agoYes, I think it's mostly the same with more emphasis in NL on the 'diskettes' but that's about it.
- p_l 6y agoAt least in Poland, the PC culture seems to have ended up calling both 5.25" and 3.5" "dyskietka" (lit. "diskette"). "Disk" tended to be encountered in "official" names used by OS software (so, "disk A:" etc.) but at least I never encountered "disk" to refer to anything other than hard drive since ~1992 or so.
- louwrentius 6y agoExactly the same for The Netherlands. A diskette/floppy was never a disk. Only hard drives were called disks.