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floppy disks

  • plural
    of floppy disk.
    floppy disk
    noun
    a portable storage medium consisting of a square plastic case containing a thin disk coated with magnetic material that is inserted into a drive to read and write data: popular from the 1970s through the 1990s.

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It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Mr. Kono says Japan’s government still has about 1,900 processes that require people to use floppy disks, CDs, or something similar.

From NewsForKids.net Sep. 2, 2022

Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2022

Steidel Wall started at the agency in 1991 as an archivist trainee, working on issues from establishing data standards to digitizing records on floppy disks.

From Washington Post Aug. 27, 2022

Boards went down all over America, and were shipped en masse to the computer investigation lab of the Secret Service, in Washington DC, along with the 23,000 floppy disks and unknown quantities of printed material.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

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