disksuit

Disksuit refers to a type of removable storage media that was popular in the early days of personal computing. It was a thin, flexible disk, typically made of plastic coated with a magnetic material, enclosed in a protective square sleeve. These disks came in various capacities, with 5.25-inch and 8-inch being common sizes for early systems. The term "disksuit" itself is a portmanteau, combining "disk" and "suit" to denote the protective casing.

To read from or write to a disksuit, a special drive called a disk drive was required. This drive had a read/write head that would directly contact the magnetic surface of the disk as it spun at high speed. Disksuits were used for a variety of purposes, including storing operating systems, application programs, and user data. Their portability allowed users to easily transfer files between different computers or to back up important information.

However, disksuits were susceptible to damage from dust, magnetic fields, and physical bending. They also had relatively low storage capacities compared to modern media, and their transfer speeds were considerably slower. Over time, disksuits were largely replaced by higher-density and more robust storage technologies such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, and eventually optical media and solid-state drives. While no longer in common use, disksuits represent an important step in the evolution of digital data storage.