diskette

Noun

Meaning

a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

floppy floppy disk disk book record account transmittal album disc magnetic tape hypermedia hard disk optical disk floppy disks hard drive

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Antonyms

remove disorder disrupt confuse mess delete

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Hypernyms

disk disc magnetic disk magnetic disc

Examples

floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price Source: Internet

1581 Image Layout The 1581 disk has 80 logical tracks, each with 40 logical sectors (the actual physical layout of the diskette is abstracted and managed by a hardware translation layer). Source: Internet

A blank unformatted diskette has a coating of magnetic oxide with no magnetic order to the particles. Source: Internet

Adding the DMA chip improved the speed of diskette operations and IBM PC-compatibility of these earlier Tandy 1000 models and ensured that input from a serial port or keyboard would not be ignored during floppy drive access. Source: Internet

Decompiling Its FORTH was adapted to the disk-less tape-using home computer hardware being able to save/load user compiled vocabularies instead of the usual numbered programming blocks used by diskette systems. Source: Internet

A special "reference diskette" was inserted in an IBM AT to configure settings such as memory size. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

disker diskerie diskery diskette drive diskindness diskitis