27 Aug
2001
27 Aug
'01
4:55 a.m.
Rumor has it that Russ Blakeman may have mentioned these words:
The locals here in Ky call the 3.5" floppies
"hard disks" too - I guess
because the hard outer casing. It's difficult to explain to them that it's
still a floppy disk as the revolving disk inside of that case is flexible -
or "floppy" and that a hard drive gets it's name from having hard platters
inside of it. Of course I may be biased having grown up in Chicago with
schools that teach you that "I ain't got no ideal" or "might
could" are
improper uses of English and that the earth was found to be round :-)
It's not hard at all -- Where I used to work our secretary kept calling
3.5" floppies "hard disks" and wouldn't change her language at my
copious
requests & sincere attempts at re-education...
So one day, I took apart a dead 3.5" floppy disk to extract the floppy
media within, & one of the platters from my first hard drive ever (an old
5.25" RLL 66Megger - so this is almost on-topic... ;-) put them easily
accessible in my briefcase & went to work. I stopped by her desk, popped
open my briefcase, pulled out the floppy media & threw it at her. It (of
course) flopped all over the place, and I said "that's out of one of these
*floppy* disks - that's why we call them "floppies."
I then took out the hard drive disk & threw it in her general direction
(but missing her by a few feet) and bounced it off of her desk with a
*very* loud bang! She said "Holy Shit! What the hell was that?!?" I said
"that came out of an old hard drive -- *that's why we call them hard
drives*!!"
She *never* made that mistake ever again... :-) Education is *such* a
wonderful thing!!!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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