Likely just full height, not double height. What has become the normal height for a 5.25" drive is half height. I've seen plenty of full height 5.25" hard drives, but I don't think I've seen double height (would take 4 bays in a modern computer case, if modern computer cases had 4 bays)

I was going to say "my current desktop has 4 CD-capable bays", but I checked and it's actually only 3 bays followed by unused space (and then 2.5" and 3.5" bays below that).

It's been a while. It was twice the size of two 5.25 floppy drives. Whatever size that is.

The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems.

Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!

Mmmm...back when your computer had a smell. You mentioned that hard drive and the memories of computer aroma flashes in my snoot. I had a friend that would seal up his Nintendo to trap the aroma.

> although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost

How times have (not) changed, eh?