The cars are recharged by inserting a frisbee-shaped power disk into a slot on the hood.
Plug the disk into a Palm Pilot, and it will tell you exactly when and for how long that stove was used in the previous month.
We couldn't have guessed that only five years later, Iomega would introduce the FotoShow: a sleek, compact, $300 disk drive that turns the digital photos on any Zip disk into a TV slide show.
Two weeks later, in his SoHo office, Mr. Friedman, joined by his partner, Donald M. Rattner, as well as Mr. Nowak, put a silvery disk into a giant-screen computer and showed off their automated rendering of the project.
As we moved slowly through one of Bogotá's semi-interminable traffic jams which included not only exhaust-spewing cars and trucks but also an occasional donkey cart Caballero, who was driving, reached back over his right shoulder and loaded a disk into a ceiling-mounted DVD player.
Dust is key to transforming this disk into a set of planets.
Was the ancient magnetic field just the right strength to mold the sun's protoplanetary disk into a solar system containing a world of the right size at the right orbital distance to develop life?
The caps serve as mechanical transformers for converting and amplifying the small radial displacement and vibration velocity of the ceramic disk into a much larger axial displacement and vibration velocity normal to the surface of the caps.
To the accompaniment of Vangelis's synthesised Chariots of Fire theme, Jobs switched the little machine on, inserted a floppy disk into a slot below its screen, and off it went, performing a comic digital routine that immediately endeared the Mac to thousands of buyers and users not just in California, but across the US and, soon enough, around the world.
