• @virku
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    610 months ago

    The 5.25 inch floppy disk were actually very bendy (floppy), while the 3.5 inch one was rigid, so I guess that’s why OP named it that?

    • @agent_flounder
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      1210 months ago

      Yeah. Everyone I knew always called them floppies whether they were 8" (mostly before my time), 5¼" or 3.5". Op was probably just adding for humor or something.

    • @radix
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      410 months ago

      I worked at a university computer lab in the late 90s, and soooo many people referred to the 3.5"ers as “hard disks.”

      • @virku
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        310 months ago

        That one hurt! I don’t know if it is because it was so wrong, or if it is because it was kind of logical.