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stiffie noun

A 3½ inch diskette, an obsolete removable storage medium for computers capable of storing 1·44 MB of data, or about a quarter of a typical 2023 digital photo

Origin

A South Africa-based PW colleague of Mark’s reasoned that if the predecessor medium, the 5¼ inch diskette, was a floppy (it was) then its successor in its rigid plastic case must be a stiffie

Collector

Mark – 1980s
Mark Iliff – owner

Submitted: 30/07/2023 by Mark ● Last updated: 30/07/2023 23:35 by Mark

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