How to Use floppy disk in a Sentence

floppy disk

noun

• The slot at the bottom was meant to house two floppy disk drives.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 26 June 2019
• With the 1998 release of the iMac, Apple did away with the floppy disk drive, leaving only a rewritable CD drive.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 23 Dec. 2019
• The best Oscars looks of the '90s Embrace your inner '90s kid by checking out the best Oscars looks from the era of floppy disks.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2020
• Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk.
  — Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
• There was the 1998 release of the iMac that — to some customers' horror — did away with the floppy disk drive, featuring only a re-writable CD drive.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
• The protruding floppy disk is the game’s power button, and there’s also a speaker to its right that barks out eight-bit audio just fine.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2018
• The idea of storing data in DNA predates Microsoft and floppy disks, if not quite the woolly mammoth.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Snail mail has gone the way of folding maps, modems, floppy disks, video tapes, answering machines, pay phones, typewriters, pagers and books.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• In 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his first term and Sony was still selling floppy disks.
  — Bailey Pennick, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
• Then an uncle gave us a Macintosh 128k, a small boxy Apple personal computer with a floppy disk drive on the front.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020
• That’s still true, but nearly a year into a global pandemic, this question is about as obsolete as a floppy disk.
  — Serena Kerrigan, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• The floppy disk encapsulates some of the greatest long-term challenges to computer science.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Also your quill pen, your manual typewriter and your floppy disk.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• But in recent years, DVDs have started going the way of the floppy disk, and Netflix, the golden child of the streaming revolution, has started catering less to the film nerd and more to the average bored consumer.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2017
• However, this view of leadership is as obsolete as a floppy disk.
  — Grégoire Vigroux, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Originally, the software was built to shrink files into 50 to 70 percent of their original size so that more files could fit on physical floppy disks.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
• As a storage medium, floppy disk technology dates back over 50 years.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
• At that time, most computers stored data on floppy disks that held just 1.44 megabytes of memory — smaller than the average selfie.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• The officers took a computer tower, desktop, flash drives, SD cards, tablets, multiple CDs, floppy disks, cellphones, a camcorder and a hard drive, court records show.
  — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 15 June 2018
• Official documents are often submitted via fax (a machine that sends messages over the phone line) or floppy disk (a precursor to the USB drive).
  — Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Bloom’s boxes—rebranded as Bloom Energy Servers around 2011—look like large refrigerators and contain stacks of fuel cells, each the size of a floppy disk.
  — Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• Design documents, floppy disks, and other proof of their output went up in flames in Monterey, California.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 May 2020
• But given that many of the games from this era were distributed via floppy disks in plastic bags, preservation seems both an admirable and necessary undertaking.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2019
• Another simplification was made in the Macintosh’s file structure, exploiting the small disk space with only one or two floppy disk drives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• While socializing, casually inquire with a server about the status of the city’s floppy disk repair services.
  — Alexandra Misch, Esquire, 1 Mar. 2018
• Once designed for the floppy disk, technology has evolved, and clinicians can now use our solution on smartphones, browsers and within electronic health record (EHR) systems.
  — Greg Samios, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Previously, the Square employee managed to fit an entire bootable floppy disk containing a video game into a 140-character tweet.
  — Shoshana Wodinsky, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2018
• That plot line hinges on the exchange of some highly inflammatory information stored on floppy disks, and yes, Virginia, there was a time not so many years ago that people, even spies, probably, relied on these disks to store their secrets.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018
• But an actual floppy disk could offer a sense of physical history with old computers that's often forgotten in a technical world obsessed with the new.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
• In 1989, twenty thousand public-health researchers around the world received a floppy disk purporting to contain an informational program about AIDS.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024