Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : StormTrooper
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 25 2025 03:35 pm

-=> StormTrooper wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

 NR> only play from it. That said, not sure where the term "drive" comes
 NR> from because hard drives don't really go any where. Then again, where
 NR> are 3 1/2" disks called floppies because they're not floppy at all. So

 St> I suspect... that hard drive is a throw back to them good old days when
 St> your HD was the size of a fridge and you had to install the platters in
 St> it.  In a real sense you inserted platters into the drive mechanism.
 St> Probably hung on after the platters became integrated and the devices
 St> much smaller..

Floppies used to be floppy - especially the 8" variety. 5 1/4" were
minifloppies, and 3 1/2" were microfloppies. Would that make a USB stick
a nanoflopppy?


 
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