floppy disk
Noun
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Noun
floppy disk (plural floppy disks)
- (computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
- A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.
- 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press (ISBN 9780412598104), page 107:
- The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.
- 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
- French: disquette
- German: Diskette, Floppy, Floppy Disk
- Italian: floppy disk, floppy, dischetto
- Portuguese: disquete, disco flexível
- Russian: диске́та
- Spanish: disquete, disco flexible
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