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Re: [SLE] Stiffy recovery tools
- From: Scott Leighton <helphand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:21:56 -0800
- Message-id: <200411260921.57292.helphand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Friday 26 November 2004 9:12 am, Andrew Betts wrote:
> Out of curiosity... what is a 'stiffy' ?
>
(storage, jargon)
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".
--
POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
Linux 2.6.5-7.111-default x86_64
> Out of curiosity... what is a 'stiffy' ?
>
(storage, jargon)
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".
--
POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
Linux 2.6.5-7.111-default x86_64
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