• fjordbasa@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    5.25” floppy disk: information stored on non rigid disc with non-rigid protective covering.

    3.5” floppy disk: information stored on non rigid disc with rigid casing.

    The newer, smaller disks were also called floppy because the actual disc inside was just as floppy as its predecessor.

    I think OP was reluctant to call it their disk a floppy despite it being historically referred to as such

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      10 months ago

      I always called the 3.5 a “diskette” (or an “A drive” which was incorrect but everyone knew what you meant).