5.25 inch floppy disks were fragile. They had to be stored in paper sleeves, could not be веnт, and they could be damaged by a single touch 3.5 inch floppy disks held 1.44 megabytes of data. That's enough for maybe two or three standard Microsoft Word documents with no images. That's enough for maybe a minute of MP3 quality music. Before internet use was common, the most frequent way that computer viruses spread was through floppy disks. It was a risk to take your data to another person's computer.
5.25 inch floppy disks were fragile. They had to be stored in paper sleeves, could not be веnт, and they could be damaged by a single touch
3.5 inch floppy disks held 1.44 megabytes of data. That's enough for maybe two or three standard Microsoft Word documents with no images. That's enough for maybe a minute of MP3 quality music.
Before internet use was common, the most frequent way that computer viruses spread was through floppy disks. It was a risk to take your data to another person's computer.