Older, 5 1/4" floppy disks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File

Older, 5 1/4" floppy disks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy... were very floppy, you could bend it quite a bit! One time, this was when I was 8, a friend was immensely frustrated with a game, just extremely pissed off, and grabbed a C-64 game and ripped the internal, softer floppy out of the shell (8" pic, but same idea): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:8-inch_floppy_disk_-_IZOT,_Bulgaria_-_inside.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:8-inch... He did this by grabbing it and ripping it out via the center hole. The external shell was untouched/damaged. He then crushed it into a ball, like crumpling up a piece of paper. Of course, I was pissed. But amusingly I then took it, and flattened it out, and then shoved it with all its creases .. back inside the floppy shell after opening it by its top flap. And it worked! Talk about low read density.