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"floppy disk" is a correct and common phrase in written English.
It refers to a small, portable storage disk that was used before the advent of USB drives and cloud storage. Example: "I found some old documents on a floppy disk in my attic and had to go to a special store to get them transferred onto a USB drive."
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floppy disk
noun
A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
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Remember the floppy disk (800 kilobytes)?
Yoshiro Nakamatsu invented the floppy disk.
We next rotated the floppy disk.
"A floppy disk?" he writes, paraphrasing a security expert.
Floppy disk, ordiskette, Magnetic storage medium used with computers.
Take the floppy disk, CDs, posting letters and the atlas.
So was the floppy disk drive in the computer.
It was like a floppy disk suddenly blowing up".
About as easily as a floppy disk, you might say.
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(A floppy-disk drive was optional).
Data will be accepted either in electronic (floppy disk/CD/internet) or paper form.
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