Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:10:11 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> Cc: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/console Message-ID: <199604240610.IAA11409@grumble.grondar.za>
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HMG coA reductase wrote:
> What's a "stiffy" drive?
A 3 1/5 inch floppy. So called because of the stiff case.
In South Africa, to call this a {mini|micro|*}floppy would get lots of
people yelling at you that its a "stiffy", not a "floppy".
Crazy.
> > > Robin> As an "operator" you can access the stiffy drive
> > >
> > > The WHAT?!? I think this might have implications with the
> > > communications decency act ...
> >
> > Of course. You won't get any decent communications with a stiffy (or
> > with a floppy, for that matter).
Yup - Typical South African Usage - The two types of floppy actually
have different names - and these are enforced by "common usage".
M
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