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**Dvjkefdw** · 12-29-2009, 09:25 PM

We called the 3 1/2" disks, 'diskettes', as they were only just coming on the market at the time - many computers only had the 5 1/4" older style disks and it was a quick way to differentiate between them. Heck, I knew of one company that still used the 8" disks.

12-29-2009, 09:25 PM	#12
Dvjkefdw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 521 Senior Member	We called the 3 1/2" disks, 'diskettes', as they were only just coming on the market at the time - many computers only had the 5 1/4" older style disks and it was a quick way to differentiate between them. Heck, I knew of one company that still used the 8" disks.
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