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0 pointsp_l5y ago0 comments

At least in Poland, the PC culture seems to have ended up calling both 5.25" and 3.5" "dyskietka" (lit. "diskette").

"Disk" tended to be encountered in "official" names used by OS software (so, "disk A:" etc.) but at least I never encountered "disk" to refer to anything other than hard drive since ~1992 or so.

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louwrentius4y ago

Exactly the same for The Netherlands. A diskette/floppy was never a disk. Only hard drives were called disks.

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0 pointsp_l5y ago0 comments

At least in Poland, the PC culture seems to have ended up calling both 5.25" and 3.5" "dyskietka" (lit. "diskette").

"Disk" tended to be encountered in "official" names used by OS software (so, "disk A:" etc.) but at least I never encountered "disk" to refer to anything other than hard drive since ~1992 or so.

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louwrentius4y ago

Exactly the same for The Netherlands. A diskette/floppy was never a disk. Only hard drives were called disks.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse