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  1. .@lukeburbank @andrew_walsh Floppy disks are called floppy no matter if the outer shell is hard or not. Hard disk drives have hard platters. 8", 5.25", 3.5", Floptical, LS-120 and Zip disks: Floppy disks Jaz, Syquest, Bernoulli Box, SyJet, hard drives: Hard disk drives #fin
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      The shell is just the protection. The actual media that the data is written on isn't the shell, it's the spinning disk within the shell and that is what determines whether it is floppy or not.
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