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dirkctoday at 7:26 AM1 replyview on HN

We used to call the 1.44MB (3.5inch) disk stiffies, since they are rigid, while the physically bigger disks we used to refer to as floppies.

And they used to fail all the time, especially when you had something that spanned more than a single disk.


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urbandw311ertoday at 8:52 AM

Is that name used with an eyebrow raised, or did that particular double entendre not make it out of the UK?

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