Reply 45760 of 52818, by BitWrangler
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weedeewee wrote on 2022-07-30, 21:54:BitWrangler wrote on 2022-07-30, 21:48:PD2JK wrote on 2022-07-30, 21:04:Some sealed boxes of these fortified micro floppy disks.
Heh, I had forgotten the floppy = 8" minifloppy= 5.25" microfloppy= 3.5" thing, took me a sec.
In what year was that a thing? and what would a 3" floppy be called ?
I am not sure about the 3" though I've heard them also referred to as microfloppies with the 3" qualifier. Though they get known as "amstrad floppies" due to CPCs and PCW using them.
I used to hear those terms a lot earlier in the 80s and decreasingly into the 1990s. By '93 even, if you were talking about a floppy it was assumed you meant a 3.5" unless otherwise indicated. Very late 80s ppl were tryna get the term "stiffy" to catch on, because obviously it was harder than a floppy, but not as hard as a hard drive.
edit: Transitionally, because HD 5.25 and DD 3.5s were around, I think ppl started calling them by formatted capacity more late 80s into early 90s, where you understood the physical size by the formatted size corellation. 320/360k would be a regular 5.25, 1.2MB a HD 5.25, 720k a DD 3.5 and 1.44 the HD 3.5
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