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I see the term used as late as in the Byte issue about the IBM PC in 1982, and possibly later. It wasn't before the 3.5" floppy arrived that the term completely
by einr 4y ago
I see the term used as late as in the Byte issue about the IBM PC in 1982, and possibly later. It wasn't before the 3.5" floppy arrived that the term completely fell out of use about the 5 1/4" floppy.
It lived on even longer in marketing and packaging. The image below is of a pack of HD 5,25" disks -- judging by the overall design of it I would wager it's from the very late 80s or early 90s. Still Mini Floppy Disks.
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H881c0843bd37476aa487619ee0ad8c79O.jpg https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H881c0843bd37476aa487619ee0ad8c79...
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoCuriously, that box doesn't mention the disk size at all!
- einr 4y agoIt would have been fairly obvious from holding it in your hand at the store ;) It does call itself MD2-HD which is the abbreviation for Mini Disk, 2 sided, High Density. Mini disk here means 5.25". 3.5" disks were MF "Micro Floppy", as in MF2-DD or MF2-HD.