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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Take one apart. It's floppy inside!
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I did this with a 3.5″ floppy and a 3.5″ HDD, because some of the trainee secretaries thought the 3.5″ floppy was a hard disk (the 5.25″ but not 8″ was still about in 1992) and some others thought the actual PC was the hard disk. Then the bits went on a board at the front of the class that gradually got other things.
Two decades later I heard some South Africans call the 3.5″ floppy a "stiffy disc".
I also had the Hitachi 3″ floppy in the more rectangular case in use for about 10 years (used on Amstrad). I gave away my external 8″ drive in about 2006. I used to have a CD drive that took caddies.
I also sold the Sony 3.5″ MO drives for a while and the discs for those looked liked fat floppies, but had the MO "hard disk" inside the caddy. The similar or lower capacity Zip drive discs did have a floppy inside and were rubbish. Almost write-only media. I suspect the Playstation Portable and the Sony Minidisc were/are similar technology to the PC MO discs. I still have an NetMD minidisc player and can use a Chromium browser to manage it instead of the nasty Sony Windows program.