RetroFedWhere there people in the 1980's who refused to call 3.5" floppy disks floppy disks?
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squirrelCompared to 5.25” and 8” floppy disks, the 3.5” weren’t very floppy. They didn’t bend that easily, were stiff compared to the older formats.
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Generally, the term floppy disk persisted, even though later style floppy disks have a rigid case around an internal floppy disk.
Where there people who refused to call 3.5” floppy disks floppy disks because they weren’t floppy enough?
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They were floppy inside
Aren’t we all.
Yar. The actual disk itself was indeed floppy. The cartridge is not the disk.
Over here in the boonies we used to call em diskettes.
That’s very close to german: Disketten.
Danish disketter as well.
in portuguese we called them disquete
Disquettes in France.
The housing was kinda rigid but the disk itself was real flimsy, says I who have used many floppy disks. Plus, in French we used to say ‘disque’ or even ‘disquette’ (a small disk) which did not relate at all to their floppiness, so to speak.
Maybe… But “Hard Disk” was already taken. 🤷♂️
My stepmom actually insisted on calling 3.5” floppies “hard drives,” because of the casing.
I’m not sure she ever got over that mistaken assumption before they eventually faded from use, lol.
People loved saying the word floppy and this correlated well with another 3.5” object that could reasonably reach 5.25” or even 8” when less “floppy.”
In their dreams
They were also square. We still called them “discs”.
The disc inside is still round though. Did you never crack one open to see?
Of course I did. OP is asking if our description matched the inside or the outside, I’m giving further evidence that the (rigid, square) casing didn’t affect that description.
I was still a kid in the ‘80s, but basically grew up around (and in, sometimes), computer stores and computers. I don’t recall hearing this.
Nope
Yes.