Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
^ MG, they're still floppy disks whether they use the 5.25" or 3.5" form factor. It's the disk inside that's floppy, as opposed to the rigid platters in a hard disk.
They were bigger then that I think. Had to look it up. 8 inch. I knew they were larger!
The 5 inch and the 3.5 inch are modern (1990's) and far more rigid than the old types as I remember being impressed with how they had made them more durable.
We use the 5 inch in my Mums computer and my brother added a 3.5 inch but we never had any of them. The larger 8 inch types were MUCH floppier. The 5" are pretty rigid in comparisson.
What do they use today?
The 3.5" ones are the only ones that are really rigid, the 5" ones are flexible, like a plastic envelope around the disk.
Nowadays USB thumb drives and flash cards are the main portable storage. Zip disks were a thing for awhile, but they didn't last long.
Yes, but the older larger ones were very floppy as had no plastic surround.