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We used to call the 1.44MB (3.5inch) disk stiffies, since they are rigid, while the physically bigger disks we used to refer to as floppies.

And they used to fail all the time, especially when you had something that spanned more than a single disk.

>>dirkc+(OP)
Is that name used with an eyebrow raised, or did that particular double entendre not make it out of the UK?

>>urband+Ia
My level of English was very basic during the age of stiffies, so that double entendre never occurred to me at the time

>>dirkc+(OP)
> We used to call the 1.44MB (3.5inch) disk stiffies

Are you from South Africa? I understand it was the standard slang name there -- and nowhere else, because of the double entendre.

>>lprove+mL1
I am indeed. Very specific knowledge of South Africa you have there :)

>>dirkc+lV1
I did grow up in Africa, but West not South.

But yeah, when that nickname was current, it was quite famous -- and nobody else dared use it, even the Aussies! :-D