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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Ha indeed, nope never knew that.

However, 5.25” floppy’s are floppy on the outside. I assume that’s where they got their name.

Hard disk I just assumed we called it opposite of a floppy back in 1986 when I got a 20MB drive for my PC Jr. lol