BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: 3.5 floppies
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:31:00 -0800
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-=> Nightfox wrote to Ogg <=-

 Ni> That may be, but it was common to just call the whole thing a floppy
 Ni> disk.

I think I mentioned this before, when there were 8 inch floppies, they
were called "floppy" disks. 5 1/4 were mini-floppies, until 8 inch
floppies became rare, then they became floppies. When 3 1/2" floppies
came around, they were microfloppies, until they became the standard.


 
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