I found this old software on a medium I don’t recognize at my church. Does anyone know if this has value to anybody? this

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    1 year ago

    You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. And that said, from a daily-use perspective, the 3½" type has a rigid case, i.e. not floppy. So the storage medium is floppy, while the whole object that the user is expected & supposed to interact with is not. That’s why I find “3½ inch floppy disk” to be a bit of a misnomer.

    The 8" and 5¼" types have soft carriers, which is why I have no qualms calling those “floppy disks.”