floppy disk

noun

Definition of floppy disk

: a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored

Examples of floppy disk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In 1989, twenty thousand public-health researchers around the world received a floppy disk purporting to contain an informational program about AIDS. — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021 That’s still true, but nearly a year into a global pandemic, this question is about as obsolete as a floppy disk. — Serena Kerrigan, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020 Bloom’s boxes—rebranded as Bloom Energy Servers around 2011—look like large refrigerators and contain stacks of fuel cells, each the size of a floppy disk. — Rebecca Davis O’brien And Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020 The cypherpunks, a loose group of engineers and activists who saw encryption as fundamental to a free society, responded by distributing encryption software online and via floppy disk. — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020 Then an uncle gave us a Macintosh 128k, a small boxy Apple personal computer with a floppy disk drive on the front. — Robin Kaiser-schatzlein, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020 Floppy Disks Avast founders Eduard Kucera and Pavel Baudis created their first anti-virus program in 1980s communist Czechoslovakia, when malware was mostly spread by floppy disks. — Krystof Chamonikolas, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020 Design documents, floppy disks, and other proof of their output went up in flames in Monterey, California. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 19 May 2020 Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk. — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020

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