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Found my old non floppies… oh no, a Grue! (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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[–] fjordbasa 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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