diskettes

• “(As a curmudgeonly aside: 3. 5-inch disks, what some once called diskettes, don't flop at all compared to their 5. 25-inch predecessors or even older 8-inch behemoths like the one you see underneath a vintage "floppy" in the above photo.)”

  The Washington Post: Faster Forward: Sony move confirms floppy disk's death, but its icon lives on

• “Probably the same reason we have moved away from diskettes, tapes and corded phones.”

  Official Google Mobile Blog: Mobile Web Calendar for iPhone and Android, now with event management

• “Ah for the good old days when we could get Word Perfect on 2 diskettes.”

  Discourse.net: Threat Models

• “How did I stuff those 3 1/2″ diskettes into my CD-ROM drive?”

  Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Quickbooks — Steadily Worse Each and Every Year

• “Publications included are books, booklets, pamphlets, cards, diskettes, CD, and other electronic media used for liturgical celebrations or popular participation.”

  Religion and Royalties on Ritual Texts

• “Practically, it required 8MB of memory, a 75MHz Pentium processor, 50 to 60 MB of hard drive space, and was distributed on either CD-ROM or diskettes.”

  Consumer Reports: Windows 95: Happy 15th anniversary

• “In 1993, the small independent firm, Italica Press, published its first e-book, also on HyperCard on two 800K diskettes: The Marvels of Rome for the Macintosh was an electronic edition of the celebrated medieval guide to the city.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Companion to the Book'

• “It came on 800K diskettes as Macintosh freeware, thus establishing an early precedent that would resonate in the later open-access movement.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Companion to the Book'

• “Personally, I got rid of at least three large boxes of papers and old diskettes (the diskettes are going to GreenDisk today) and we're both jazzed up and will keep chipping away at it for the rest of this month.”

  1/3/08: A good start to the year

• “The product was on a PC using 3.5-inch diskettes, and the laserdisk had some additional magic not possible on the PC back then.”

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