# I found an 8.25" floppy

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**Created:** [November 21, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-an-8-25-floppy/94515 "2001-11-21T02:21:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-an-8-25-floppy/94515/18 "2001-11-21T22:09:44Z")

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About 7 years ago, I was a word processing clerk for the American Psychological Association. Their mainframe software, and presumably the mainframe itself, dated from 1977. And the dumb terminals were so old, they were encased in _wood_! The only way I know this is from one that had a chipped corner. The cases appeared to be plastic, but they were really wood! Yes, the APA has since replaced their entire network with WinNT.

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