minidisk
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minidisk (plural minidisks)
- (computing, dated) A 5.25-inch floppy disk.
- 1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239:
- Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques. A smaller 5-inch-diameter disk, referred to as a minidisk, is also available. Data-storage capacity is typically 70,000 to 100,000 bytes.
- 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 1:
- From minidisks, floppy disks, all the way to high-capacity hard disks, the flexibility of CP/M 2.0 makes it a truly universal operating system.