floppy disk

Example Sentences

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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

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