Comment by dirkc
21 hours ago
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.
Is that name used with an eyebrow raised, or did that particular double entendre not make it out of the UK?
My level of English was very basic during the age of stiffies, so that double entendre never occurred to me at the time
> 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.
I am indeed. Very specific knowledge of South Africa you have there :)