In reality, you’re able to render a floppy unusable in seconds, even by accident.
There is also an 8-inch floppy disk standard, but this was never a mainstream format for home computing.
The 5.25-inch disks earn the name “floppy” with their thin, flimsy structure.
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It’s easy to bend (but don’t!
Obviously, physical damage is also a factor.
There are a few common signs:
For critical data (likenuclear codesmaybe?)
It reads floppies in the 2020s.
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It reads floppies in the 2020s.
