floppy disk
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“That advice has not aged well—it has the practical value of a floppy disk today,” wrote Gill.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
He doesn’t have the internet on his computer and continues to save his work to a floppy disk, which he walks down the hall to his assistant at the end of the work day.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024
You will try to take a bite of a sandwich, and — crunch, you have bitten into a floppy disk of sources and methods from 1993.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.
From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2022
He straightened up his desk, shut down his computer, and removed a floppy disk that contained his daily diary, his “Chronology of Events.”
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
