floppy disk
See also: floppydisk
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
floppy disk (plural floppy disks)
- (computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
- A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.
- 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.
- 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
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Descendants edit
- → Italian: floppy disk
- → Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)
Translations edit
flexible disk used for storing digital data
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- floppy disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:floppy disk on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English floppy disk.
Noun edit
floppy disk m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- floppy disk in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana