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Is that a stiffy disk in your drive... or something else entirely?

Terry 6 Silver badge

"Stiffy" Really.

Back in the good old days, when new machines with these new fangled discs arrived we just carried on calling 'em floppies. Everyone did. The people who introduced them made a great play on how much tougher the new floppy discs were. And that was it.

Nothing to see here. Just move on.

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