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My first reaction was "what's a floppy, grampa?", but then I remembered my first computer was an Apple II and that it took me more than a year or writing and reading cassette tapes before having the money to buy it a floppy.
And floppies are also extremely important to retrocomputing, as it is frequently the only way to get data to and from an old computer.
"(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore?"
I recall getting DOS machines confused with bad floppies to the point they'd need a reboot too. Especially with non standard "extra space" formats that would read differently on a different drive than they'd been produced with.