Minifloppy
storage
5.25-inch vanilla floppy disks, as opposed to 3.5-inch or microfloppies and the now-obsolescent 8-inch variety.
At one time, this term was a trademark of Shugart Associates for their SA-400 minifloppy drive. Nobody paid any attention.
See stiffy.
(1996-05-03)
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