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I only used 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy disks, and I assume you refer to the 3 1/2 ones as the cover on those was hard. I always thought the 'floppy' part was to ref
by fipar 4y ago
I only used 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy disks, and I assume you refer to the 3 1/2 ones as the cover on those was hard. I always thought the 'floppy' part was to refer to the disk itself, which, even on the 3 1/2 ones was flexible, but now you make me question that and perhaps they name just stuck even if they stopped being floppy? I never thought of this because in my country they were referred to as "diskettes" , a word that didn't imply (to me anyway) any flexibility on them.
- escape_goat 4y agoIt was indeed a reference to the physical substrate of the disk, not the bendability of the media per se. They were still truly floppy.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoI think I stopped calling them floppies when we started using 3.5" disks and just called them disks. Because the 5.25's were floppy on the outside, but the 3.5's weren't.
- rightbyte 4y agoThe inside is floppy though. Disk implies solid in my world.