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diskette drive
noun
Short form of floppy diskette drive
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Computer makers have had mixed success in eliminating the diskette drive.
And its diskette drive lets you take your music with you.
Later this year, when consumers order a computer from Dell, the default option will be the lack of a diskette drive, and customers will have to pay extra if they want one.
A diskette image will not work if there is no diskette drive installed in the PC.
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Mr. Vena acknowledged that weaning consumers from diskette drives would not be easy.
Diskette drives are still found on most computers, even though few people make much use of them.
Disk/Trend estimates that about 70percentt of the Windows PC's sold in the United States today have diskette drives.
Dell, in 1999, and IBM, in 2000, introduced "legacy-free" computers that came without diskette drives, using the space saved to make the machines more compact.
We're also seeing an increase in demand for diskettes in China and Latin America, places where virtually all PC's have diskette drives but relatively few have CD-ROM drives or are connected to the Internet".
Because they lack built-in diskette drives, ordering yours with a CD-RW drive is an excellent idea so you can copy your files onto blank CD's for backups and distribution.
The move initially stimulated a brisk business in external drives in trademark iMac colors, but few Mac users now appear to be unhappy about the lack of diskette drives on their computers.
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