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Via @osnews@mstdn.social on Mastodon:

There is no such thing as a 3.5 inch floppy disc

Wait, what?

The term 3.5 inch floppy disc is in fact a misnomer. Whilst the specification for 5.25 inch floppy discs employs Imperial units, the later specification for the smaller floppy discs employs metric units.

The standards for these discs are [...] all of which specify the measurements in metric, and only metric. These stand

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