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
  • For Rylan Steininger, being in the presence of a floppy disk was a first.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The computer had a Basic interpreter but no hard drive or even a floppy disk to save his code.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016
  • Also your quill pen, your manual typewriter and your floppy disk.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
  • However, this view of leadership is as obsolete as a floppy disk.
    — Grégoire Vigroux, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Hard drives got better and more affordable through the 1980s, yet the floppy disk still flourished.
    — Harry McCracken, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2010
  • As a storage medium, floppy disk technology dates back over 50 years.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Because everything was kept in one place, when the user saved the system state to a floppy disk, their entire workspace was frozen and stored in its entirety.
    — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The floppy disk encapsulates some of the greatest long-term challenges to computer science.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • To leave a floppy disk untended for twenty years does not permit one to pick it up later and reminisce, the way a letter or a photograph does.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • While socializing, casually inquire with a server about the status of the city’s floppy disk repair services.
    — Alexandra Misch, Esquire, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Design documents, floppy disks, and other proof of their output went up in flames in Monterey, California.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sony, the last floppy disk manufacturer standing, stopped making floppies in 2011.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his first term and Sony was still selling floppy disks.
    — Bailey Pennick, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Raskin wanted to use a Mac-like floppy drive that could automatically detect floppy disk insertion, but Canon required the system to use their own floppy drives, which didn't.
    — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In a few years, comically oversized foam-board novelty checks will be the last remaining evidence of a 20th-century icon, as the paper check goes the way of the landline phone and the floppy disk.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 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
  • For anyone under 35, a floppy disk is a magnetic memory strip encased in plastic that is physically inserted into a computer.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025

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