Sentence examples similar to floppy diskette drive from inspiring English sources
noun
A computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes.
- Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.
Computer makers have had mixed success in eliminating the diskette drive.
And its diskette drive lets you take your music with you.
A diskette image will not work if there is no diskette drive installed in the PC.
If you still insist on using the floppy drive interface, floppy emulators exist where you can store floppy disk images on a flash drive and select them and the emulator will load them as if the image was a real floppy.
Insert the floppy disk into your floppy drive and turn off the computer (don't just log off).
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.
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".
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.
Furthermore, it also featured a proprietary expansion slot, one additional DIMM socket and a floppy drive connector (earlier models still featured a floppy drive and had to be booted from floppy disks).
