Have you ever heard of "soft copy" meaning digital copy?

I use "hard copy" all the time but I usually just hear and say "digital copy". I got into an online thing about this.

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mindstruggle · 31-35, F

Yea, lol I use it all the time 😶

DDonde · 31-35, M

@mindstruggle I wonder what the story is behind this. Why a lot of people seem to say it globally but also a lot of people don't.

Tracos · 51-55, M

@DDonde it's literally the opposite of a hardcopy. where a hardcopy is fixed a soft copy is malleable, like a word doc (with a pfd being an annoying exception but yet still a softcopy)

DDonde · 31-35, M

@Tracos I get that it makes sense. It's just not a term I ever hear or have ever heard until a few days ago.

Tracos · 51-55, M

@DDonde and I just noticed it is a single word for me: hardcopy / softcopy, no space

so not an adjective and a noun, just a noun.