The little ones aren't floppy.
And the reason they call the 5.25" ones diskettes is because real disks were 8" or more, like fucking records.
The little ones aren't floppy.
The disk inside them is
Curiosity killed the disk..
Ok you win. Hard disks are also named on the rigidity of the disk inside.
and my nephew discovered saltine crackers can fit in the drive perfectly, so uncle inserts floppy and wtf.
Arrggg, I'm glad he grew up into a responsible young man since his childhood drove me nuts sometimes.
Lol
One time at work I found a cassette that held about five 8" floppies. I think they went with a System36 or something. I just remember feeling relieved that we have so much better shit now, of course that was like 25 years ago.
3.5" diskettes were great, they even sounded cool. Then Zip was amazing, 100 MB. Then CD-Rs. Then media became a big hassle to store and flip through.
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