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stiffy

stiffy


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  stiffy  n.  3.5-inch  {microfloppies},  so  called  because  their 
  jackets  are  more  rigid  than  those  of  the  5.25-inch  and  the  (now  totally 
  obsolete)  8-inch  floppy.  Elsewhere  this  might  be  called  a  `firmy'. 
  For  some  odd  reason,  several  sources  have  taken  the  trouble  to  inform 
  us  that  this  term  is  widespread  in  South  Africa. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  stiffy 
 
    ({University  of  Lowell},  Massachusetts)  A 
  3.5-inch  {microfloppy},  so  called  because  their  jackets  are 
  more  rigid  than  those  of  the  5.25-inch  and  the  (obsolete) 
  8-inch  {floppy  disk}.  Elsewhere  this  might  be  called  a 
  "firmy". 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1994-11-03)