And no, "floppy disk" is not short for "floppy diskette".
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And no, "floppy disk" is not short for "floppy diskette".
Same as "hard disk" isn't short for "hard diskette".
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And no, "floppy disk" is not short for "floppy diskette".
Same as "hard disk" isn't short for "hard diskette".
@thomasfuchs does compact discette still stand
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And no, "floppy disk" is not short for "floppy diskette".
Same as "hard disk" isn't short for "hard diskette".
"Diskette" refers to the complete medium, aka the floppy disk inside the shell.
It's using a dimuitive because when IBM introduced 8" diskettes in the 1970s they were substantially smaller than hard disks at the time. (Note that hard disks back then often were removable and semi-portable, often 14" in size).
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@thomasfuchs does compact discette still stand
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"Diskette" refers to the complete medium, aka the floppy disk inside the shell.
It's using a dimuitive because when IBM introduced 8" diskettes in the 1970s they were substantially smaller than hard disks at the time. (Note that hard disks back then often were removable and semi-portable, often 14" in size).
@thomasfuchs You know that some younger people who are just getting into retro computing think 3.5” diskettes were called hard disks back in the day, right? “Because it’s not floppy, duh! Only the bigger ones were floppy”
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