You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk ... bag. [Ladyada] pulls one apart on camera to show that what you’re actually getting with one of these units is a new old stock laptop ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's Convertible laptop. Capacity doubled to 1.44MB with the PS/2 line, and 1.44MB ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...