Floppy Disks LOL better save this.

personalepiphany

I was today years old when I learned that the name “Floppy” was actually based on that these disk were “floppy” as in flexible! This was really an epiphany because the Floppy Drives I knew where rather solid like the following picture.

My home on wheels

But there were also floppy disk likes these

Floppy Disk on Wikipedia

Which were flexible and would ‘flop’ around when shaken. So they could be called “Wonky” disk drives :)

I guess I knew it all.

So did you know why this was called a floppy disk?

p.s. This post wast published on 18 october 2024, but I backdated it to 4th of february 2020. Where I wrote in my notes.