I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of these...https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I just love that table!!!!
Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K. The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it, and the shutter may have lost its spring..
