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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Floppy disks" were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fun fact, in some countries the 3.5" floppies were called "stiffy disks". You know, because the outer casing was "stiff" as opposed to the floppy 5.25" disks. This discovery led to a lot of chuckling among the team I worked with when we opened a new product from one of those countries and read the manual. The instruction to "insert stiffy disk" still leads most of us to chuckling today.

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