diskette
IPA: dɪskˈɛt
noun
- (computing) A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.
- (computer hardware, dated) An 8-inch floppy disk.
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Examples of "diskette" in Sentences
- When was the last time you ever used a floppy diskette?
- An electronic file (email attachment or diskette) of the calendar is available in Microsoft Word format for $10.00.
- The first PC came standard with 16kilobytesKB of memory at a bare-bones price of $1,265 without a monitor of a diskette drive.
- The first PC came standard with 16ÂkilobytesÂKB of memory at a bare-bones price of $1,265 without a monitor of a diskette drive.
- (I copied it onto diskette, too, at that same place, in that same year, but I never resold it nor represented it as my own work.)
- In case you're wondering - I prefer the term 'diskette' for the 3.5 "variants, and reserve the term 'floppy' for the 5.25" and 8 "variants, for obvious reasons.
- Late last Friday, Sony announced that it will close down its diskette production plant in Japan and discontinue world-wide sales of the hard-shelled removable disks by next March.
- Vinyl record albums, VHS videotapes, audio tape cassettes: All these dead icons of consumer media will soon be joined by another once-prominent format — the 3. 5-inch computer "floppy" diskette.
- The beginning of the end for the diskette arrived quite awhile ago, back around 1998, when Apple abandoned it altogether in the design of their early iMacs, a move seen as controversial at the time.
- The so-called diskette is a flat black square of rather tough plastic with a hole in the middle and an oblong slot on each of the flat sides; it is said to be 51/4 inches square, but that is a lie: as the only person who probably ever measured one of these things, I can tell you it is 5 3/16 inches square; that may seem irrelevant, but it is only the beginning of the Great Deception.
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