floppy disk

Example Sentences

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The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology—dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh—is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Evidence on VHS tapes and floppy disks required resurrected 1980s computers to view and modern facial-recognition tools had to be used to track fans' movements frame by frame.

From BBC

That could mean the files and formats we use now, face a similar fate to the floppy disks and DVD drives of the past.

From BBC

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

But energetic fans sustained the work, with zines passed around on floppy disks, photocopied and then read online.

From New York Times