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floppy disk

Synonyms

Noun

1. diskette

2. floppy, magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, disc

Usage
The Floppy Disk Turns 50 - Royal Examiner
The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy - Tom's Hardware
What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks - IEEE Spectrum
Dennis Rader | BTK, Floppy Disk, Murders, & Facts - Britannica
I plugged my old floppy disks into an Android - here's what happened - Pocket-lint
I plugged a 3.5-inch floppy disk reader into my Android phone, and it just worked - XDA
Chivalware Preview – Bringing a floppy drive to a roguelite fight - TheSixthAxis
Sony's 200MB floppy disk was supposed to bury Zip drives—then it all fell apart in one month - How-To Geek
You Can Fit an Entire OS and Web Server on a Floppy Disk - Hackster.io
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks - Popular Science
Today in Apple history: Apple II gets its first disk drive - Cult of Mac
Airplanes Still Use Floppy Disks For Their Software - Here's Why - bgr.com
We Used to Fit Entire Games on a Single Floppy Disk – Top 10 Legends - A 90s Kid
America's Air Traffic Control Still Uses Floppy Disks: Here's The $12.5 Billion Fix - Simple Flying
Developer turns old floppy drive into media remote for son - The Register
Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette - Tom's Hardware
Zip drives were supposed to end the floppy era—until one design flaw destroyed everything - How-To Geek
Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows - Tom's Hardware
Floppy disks, burned CDs, and tape drives: How we survived before the cloud - How-To Geek
Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced - Tom's Hardware
Floppy Disks Just Became the Ultimate Kid-Proof TV Remote - TechEBlog -
This Engineer Got a Tesla To Play Rick Astley From a Retro Floppy Disk - Hypebeast
The SuperDisk was a better floppy, but the world didn't want a better floppy - How-To Geek
All it takes to run Factorio off 1,000 floppies is to code your own file system and a week to load the game - PC Gamer
Floppy disk hack: How a pair of scissors doubled your storage in 1992 - Yahoo Tech
Before the USB flash drive: 5 'floppy killers' that lost the retro storage war - How-To Geek
BEAMS Just Turned a $60 Floppy Disk Into Your Next Wallet - Yanko Design
forgotten computer floppy disks return to life as large-scale portrait paintings - Designboom
Nikita Buyanov showed the "Tarkov.Help" floppy disk and other streamer items from Escape from Tarkov - ixbt.games
Playing Factorio On A Floppy Disk Cluster - Hackaday
The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives - Gizmodo
This Clever Remote Turns TV Tactile — By Tying Video Playback to Physical Floppy Disks - Hackster.io
Someone ran Factorio off of 1,000 AOL floppy disks, and it took way too long - XDA
Hyper Sentinel Fusion Ships On A "Floppy Disk" And Is Now Live On Kickstarter - Time Extension
Print Pixel Art To A Floppy Disk - Hackaday
Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram - Tom's Hardware
This Isn’t Just a Floppy Disk, But Also a Web Server Running an Operating System - TechEBlog -
I ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and here's how it went - XDA
Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer — bulky 1982 Commodore 1541 5.25 inch drive packs a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU - Tom's Hardware
Stand holder for Commodore64 floppy discs C64 #3Dprinting #3DThursday - Adafruit
A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote - TechRadar
This Adorable Floppy Disk MagSafe Battery Pack Is My New EDC Fave - Retro Dodo
Floppy disks get a second life at Cambridge University Library - NPR
Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD - Tom's Hardware
Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks - Tom's Hardware
From Floppy Disks to the AI Frontier: Microsoft’s Four Decades of Innovation in Ireland - Microsoft Source
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch - Kottke.org
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks - BBC
San Francisco's SFMTA train system has been running on floppy disks for decades; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade - ABC7 Bay Area
Someone ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and it looks more fun than it should be - XDA
I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology - Prison Journalism Project
RFIDisk: When Floppy Drives Go Contactless - Hackaday
Why Cambridge University Library is safeguarding floppy disk knowledge - IT Brew
Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks - BBC
I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops - PC Gamer
Challenge: The Floppy Disk and the ‘Save’ Icon - SitePoint
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks - Reuters
Stephen Hawking’s Floppy Disks & the Digital Legacy of Science: An Interview with Leontien Talboom - AIP.ORG
Cisco: From the floppy disk to hyper-personalized AI - Network World
If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games - Currently.com
YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch - Engadget
Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks - BBC
Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible - Hackaday
Somehow Modern German Warships Are Still Using 1970s 8" Floppy Disks And Saab Is Involved - The Autopian
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk - IEEE Spectrum
Linux's Floppy Disk Driver Code Sees Some Cleanups In 2025 - Phoronix
Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks (Published 2024) - The New York Times
Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die - WIRED
NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC - Hackaday
Someone made an AI assistant for a 32-year-old Macintosh, and yes, it runs off a floppy disk - XDA
Playing with Floppy Disks — Literally! - Hackster.io
This 25-Year-Old Sony Camera Uses Floppy Disks Instead of SD Cards - Currently.com
I ran an OS off a floppy disk and here's how it went - XDA
Storage vault: The rise and fall of the floppy disk - IBM
Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system - Yahoo
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks - Ars Technica
Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years - Tom's Hardware
Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks To Make Its Rodent Mascot Dance — For Now - BuzzFeed News
Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? - TechRadar
Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one of the only places to buy them - NPR
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 - Ars Technica
Making a floppy disk from scratch #VintageComputing - Adafruit
US prisoner says legal fight trapped in 1985 as floppy disks replace modern storage for crucial court appeal documents - TechRadar
Japan Decides It's Time to Stop Using Floppy Disks, Report Says - Business Insider
Why the floppy disk may never die - IT Pro
Time's running out for firms to ditch the floppy disk - Raconteur
Floppy Disk Kingpin Says Business Has About Four Years Before Hitting Eject Button - Tom's Hardware
Are Floppy Discs Making a Comeback? - NBC Los Angeles
Introducing a Limited Floppy Edition of Cyberpunk 2077! - cyberpunk.net
Japan's digital minister vows to rid the country of floppy disks - ZDNET
US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks - Ars Technica
Kilobytes of Cultural Heritage: Preserving Collections on Floppy Disks - The Library of Congress (.gov)
The 512 Gigabyte Floppy Disk - Hackaday
Read floppy disks and CD-ROMs with Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday - Raspberry Pi
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks - Ars Technica
Why Apple killed the floppy disk and headphone jack before you were ready to give them up | CNN Business - CNN
Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (Published 2019) - The New York Times
Master Boot Record – Floppy Disk Overdrive Review - Angry Metal Guy
A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California warehouse - Reuters
CloverPit 999 Ending Guide: How to Unlock the Secret Ending - NeonLightsMedia
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'floppy disk'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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