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Old Nov 6, 2011, 10:20 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by m4gicfour View Post
Floppy discs were never floppy (due to the nature of the magnetic disc inside which needed to be able to spin. Yes there were versions that were *somewhat* flexible before the 1.44MB floppies.)

Think of this: a flexible USB drive (I.E. Flexible solid-state storage). A newspaper or magazine could send video clips along with the articles.
Hmmm, who was it that was working on digital paper tech...I remember seeing an article on it awhile back. But yeah, for that type of tech, this would be perfect.
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