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by karmakaze 2018 days ago
Yeah, it's probably relative, I've rarely used disks larger than the 8" floppies so would never call them diskettes, the 5 1/4" were commonly called that in my circles. In IBM circles of the time they'd have a different default scale.

Like I remember being surprised the first time I heard someone refer to AA batteries as the big kind.

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But you didn't come up with the name Diskette, IBM did when they created the floppy disk :-)

That's highly relevant if the question is "what's the non-'ette' disk referring to".