• Quereller@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    It only recently occurred to me the literal meaning of floppy vs. hard disk and the distinction between soft-, firm- and hardware.

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      11 months ago

      I thought they were called floppy because of those old ones that were you know… Floppy, in difference to the hard disks inside the tower.

      • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        Gates didn’t name it AFAIK. From wikipedia: “Allen came up with the original name of Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software. Hyphenated in its early incarnations,”