diskette
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Each of its 18 issues included a diskette of original fonts by a variety of noteworthy designers, including Malcolm Garrett, Peter Saville, David Carson, Tibor Kalman, Barry Deck, Bruce Mau, and on and on.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2012
Even after this amazing week, Jobs insists he will pass the diskette to a new generation and then stand aside to let it run the program.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his Chevy van, agents also found a computer diskette that contained a document summarizing seven secret reports from the debriefing of business people who had visited Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes.
From Time Magazine Archive
RaWrite 2.0 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette Rawrite2 starts and displays its welcome message.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
According to the FBI, Montes communicated with her Cuban handlers via shortwave radios, computer diskettes and pagers, The Post reported in 2001.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
Her playful watercolors once adorned packages of Lotus software; for a program called Magellan, she created a ship whose masts were tethered to billowing diskettes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
Officials pointed out antiquated phones, broken doors, a missile damaged from water leaks and an old computer that relied on enormous diskettes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2014
The usual high-density floppy discs, standard 1.44-MB diskettes, were useless--it would take 60 of them to copy my stuff.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tossed a canvas shoulder bag containing notes and diskettes into the Jeep.
From O+F by Wetterau, John Moncure
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