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What about "stiffy drives"?

This message reminds me of when a University of Chicago doctoral student brought me his Leading Edge Model D (XT clone) for a couple of upgrades in 1991. His system originally shipped with 2 5.25" diskette drives, and he understood why the media was called "floppy disks". He could hold one in his hand, shake it, and it would flop back and forth. I installed a Seagate 238R hard drive in one of the 5.25" bays and showed him the part before I installed it. He beat his knuckles on the case top and agreed that it was hard. A few months later, one of his professors insisted that he submit his writing on a 3.5" diskette, so I put a 720K floppy drive in the bay that had the ST238R, installed a 3.5" hard drive mounted on the end of an 8-bit controller card and kept the 5.25" floppy drive in its original position. The graduate student was confused, and called back a day later, saying he knew what a floppy drive was, since the media flopped, and knew what a hard drive was, since it was hard when he knocked it. But this new little thing is somewhat in-between. "Can I call it a stiffy drive?"

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