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Even Clayton Christensen’s key example of disruptive innovation—the rise of smaller disk drive producers in the hard disk industry—is wrong: Seagate not only survived disruption but remains the world’s largest manufacturer to this day.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Apple eventually opted to use a new 3.5-inch disk drive design from Sony, and Steve Jobs reportedly ordered all of the Macintosh Twiggy prototypes to be destroyed — but not all of them were.
—Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2024
The machine also had cassette tape drives for storage, predecessors of disk drives.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
My brother almost immediately found its flat membrane keyboard frustrating and the Atari 410 cassette drive too slow, so my dad ordered an Atari 800 and an Atari 810 disk drive instead.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“Disk drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disk%20drive. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
disk drive
noun
: a device for reading and writing computer data on a magnetic disk
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