diskette

noun

dis·kette ˌdi-ˈsket

: floppy disk

Examples of diskette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While the friend packed, Mr. Hanssen went to his basement and placed a stack of classified FBI documents and an encrypted computer diskette into a plastic garbage bag, then wrapped it with tape. —

Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 5 June 2023 Cartridges, diskettes, and CD-ROMs all contained full, unchanging versions of games that were forever compatible with the similarly stable hardware they were designed to be played on. —

Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019 Companies could manage a profit by simply selling the free software on physical media like diskettes or CDs. —

Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2018 Diskettes and CD-ROMs mostly conquered the market but other, weirder alternatives were out there. —

David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2017

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