Floppy disk
From The Glossary of Digital Photography
Also called diskettes. A small, removable magnetic disk that is used to store images or other data. Its storage capacity of only 1.44 MB is very limited, so its use is not as common now as it once was. At one time, floppy disks, also called floppies, were 8 inches in diameter. Later they were reduced to 5 1/4 inches. Those first floppies were flexible and could be bent, but not folded. Subsequently, even smaller disks were made. Now the most common size is 3.5-inches. The smaller ones are encased in a hard plastic shell and no longer flexible, but they are still called floppies. Sony manufactured a line of digital cameras, called Mavica, that used diskettes as the image storage media. As image file sizes grew, diskettes could not hold enough images (only three to four per diskette on the highest image-quality settings) to make them practical for use in a
camera. See also disk
