floppy disk
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Here and there, obsolete technologies peeked through the clutter: a dusty vintage computer scattered with floppy disks, VHS tapes on a rolling TV cart, a slide projector. — Quanta Magazine, "A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test," 12 Dec. 2018 The last of the 9,000 Blockbuster Video stores that once roamed the Earth sits at 211 NE Revere Ave. in Bend, Ore., a strip-mall storefront trapped in amber right down to dot-matrix printers and computers booted up with floppy disks. — John D. Stoll, WSJ, "Technology Drives Deals Because No One Wants to Be the Next Blockbuster (Video)," 29 May 2019 Previously, the Square employee managed to fit an entire bootable floppy disk containing a video game into a 140-character tweet. — Shoshana Wodinsky, The Verge, "This tweet contains an entirely playable, retro-style arcade game," 3 Aug. 2018 Up until recently, the federal government was spending $60 billion a year to maintain outdated tech and computers that still ran on floppy disks—granted, some of that equipment operated our nukes. — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, "The Terrible State of Our National Parks—in Photos," 5 July 2018 The officers took a computer tower, desktop, flash drives, SD cards, tablets, multiple CDs, floppy disks, cellphones, a camcorder and a hard drive, court records show. — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, "Hobart man accused of child porn offenses; gets federal court date," 15 June 2018 Fitzpatrick highlights the struggles with physical compatibility that many companies faced, like making sure floppy disk readers were compatible with programs like WordPerfect. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Look at This Huge Computer Archive in All Its Retro Glory," 9 Jan. 2018 The protruding floppy disk is the game’s power button, and there’s also a speaker to its right that barks out eight-bit audio just fine. — Chris Welch, The Verge, "The Oregon Trail handheld game is a really fun nostalgia gadget," 24 Mar. 2018 Snail mail has gone the way of folding maps, modems, floppy disks, video tapes, answering machines, pay phones, typewriters, pagers and books. — Newsweek, "Business," 14 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'floppy disk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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