The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems. Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.

The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems. Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!