The phrase "a floppy disk drive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a device that reads and writes data on floppy disks, typically in discussions about older technology or data storage methods.
Example: "The computer is equipped with a floppy disk drive, allowing it to access legacy data stored on floppy disks."
Alternatives: "a diskette drive" or "a floppy drive".
With iDisk, Apple has at last atoned for the lack of a floppy disk drive on its iMac computers.
The system also comes with speakers, a 20X CD-ROM drive, a floppy disk drive and a 15-inch monitor.
It's especially useful for Mac owners without a floppy disk drive and works with Windows PC's, too.
It used a 1MHz MOS Technology 6502 processor, had 4KB RAM (addressable 64KB), an audio cassette interface for data storage (later replaced by a floppy disk drive), and color graphics capability by NTSC composite video output.
Unlike conventional personal computers, which typically have a floppy disk drive for moving programs in and out of the machine and a hard disk drive for storing data, the new Compaq models are diskless.
While teaching computer science at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey in 1973, Mr. Kildall wrote a personal computer operating system, a fundamental program that controlled the way the central processing unit stored and retrieved information from a floppy disk drive.
(A floppy-disk drive was optional).
"Three different formats, two of them obsolete, one requiring renting the last Sony DCC machine from Montreal, another found scouring eBay for a Korg O/1W Pro with a floppy-disk drive".
Q. Is there another way I can move a large number of WordPerfect files from my old PC laptop to my new iMac (which does not have a floppy-disk drive) besides sending them via e-mail one at a time? A. You can compress multiple files into one attachment with utility software like WinZip or PKZIP before sending them to yourself.
He started by emptying his overstuffed briefcase: a portable computer (with a fax modem), a backup battery, a battery charger, cellular telephone, a backup battery for the phone, another battery charger, some wires for connecting the modem to a telephone outlet, an external floppy disk drive, a digital pager, an AC power adapter, some power cords and the usual paper notebooks.
Due in stores in December with a price of $1,999, it comes with a 266-megahertz Pentium processor with MMX technology, 32 megabytes of RAM, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk, a 56K modem, an external floppy disk drive and a 10.4-inch active matrix TFT screen.
