2006-12-30 18:04:21 · 13 answers · asked by Park j - park7en님 [로그아웃] 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
They are, but they are sealed in a hard plastic case.
2006-12-30 18:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by higg1966 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The original 5 1/4 in floppies were floppy, When they sized them down to 3 1/4 in they got rid of the floppieness and kept the name.
2006-12-30 18:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by prof_snakes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once upon a time they were. They were also the size of a dinner plate! Even the 3.5 inch floppy disks are floppy if you take off the hard plastic housing. Basically the same stuff cassette tapes are made of (or have they gone out of style, too?)
2006-12-30 18:07:33 · answer #3 · answered by Shihfu Mike Evans 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The data storage device is made up of thin flexible (flop) magnetic medium and therefore called as Floppy.
2006-12-30 18:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by Jal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are pretty floppy if you break open their protective case and remove them. They are a disc of thin coated plastic, and will flop back and forth if you wave them in the air.
2006-12-30 18:13:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the time they were introduced creators thought that they were floppy so the name.
2006-12-30 18:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by raj k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were in the 80's
2006-12-30 18:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by BlueFish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are called floppy because they easily flop in the garbage since they are so OLD! I guess they knew long ago they would be useless
2006-12-30 18:15:34 · answer #8 · answered by Christal 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you were to break open the hard case around the actual disk, you would see that it is made of some thin material. That disk used to be bigger and...well, floppier :)
2006-12-30 18:13:28 · answer #9 · answered by slaughter114 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that clown fish are just fish.
2006-12-30 18:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by Wishful Writer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋