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It’s a 3.5” floppy disk. And they were actually pretty firm. I’m mostly miffed cause for some people this is archaeology, and for me it was my childhood.
Ha, you're right. Thank for the catch.
I too grew up with these and remember discovering DriveSpace, a Microsoft utility let you "compress a disk", including floppies. This would often double their capacity.
God I remember arc.exe and the first time I figured out how to write a proper command to compress some files. It feels like a million years ago.