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OCR: EGHNOO -1 Flo PPY Di sk Sto rage Why it called a floppy floppy disk IS round piece 0 flexible mylar plastic InfoWeb covered with thin laver of magnetic oxide The sealed inside protective casing Those brightly colored computer disks that fit cony eniently your pocket or backpack are sometimes mistakenly called "hard disks" because of their plastic casing. If you break uado the casing (something you should never do unless you want to ruin the Floppies disk). you PIn oM see that the mylar inside thin and well, floppy. Floppy disks are also called floppies or diskettes special high capacity floppy manufactured by iomega Corp called disk Floppy come in several size s: 31/2 inch, 51/4 inch, and 8 in ch. The size mo st commonly used on today microcomputers 31/z inch 31/z-in ch circular made of fl ...