Tantalizing Triva: Disks

Yes, the SAVE icon on your computer looks like this.

This photo is of a few 3.5″ floppy disks I saved when I purged my office a few years ago.

I also have a couple 5.25″ disks, which were common before the 3.5″ version came into being.

There are many technical reasons given for the shrinkage of disks (they started out 8″). The truth?

A 3.5″ floppy fits into a shirt pocket.*