Examples of diskette in a Sentence
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But the small diskettes couldn’t keep up with the demands of bloated software.
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Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 July 2024
Everything is bigger, faster, and more flexible, but there's a certain charm to the ways of diskettes and cassettes that is hard to recapture.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 May 2024
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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Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 July 2024
Everything is bigger, faster, and more flexible, but there's a certain charm to the ways of diskettes and cassettes that is hard to recapture.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 May 2024
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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“Diskette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diskette. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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