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floppy drives
noun
Plural of floppy drive
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Two floppy drives play the "Star Wars" Imperial March.
He took away our floppy drives, our dial-up modems, our camcorder jacks, our non-glossy screens, our Flash, our DVD drives, our removable laptop batteries.
A. In an effort to slim down, many ultralight laptop designs dispense with elements like internal CD-ROM and floppy drives and nonessential connection ports.
Macintosh computers have not had floppy drives for years, but there are other ways to get the data from a diskette copied to the iMac.
In the early 2000s NASA, America's space agency, was reduced to trawling around internet auction sites in order to find old-style eight-inch floppy drives to get at the data it had laid down in the 1960s and 1970s.
But while Apple dropped the disk drive from the iMac in 1998 and the likes of Hewlett-Packard supplyingupplying floppy drives on business desktops in 2009, they are still in use today.
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Remember when Apple killed off the floppy drive?
But can do you do this on a Windows 7 computer with no floppy drive?
But when was the last time you saw a floppy drive?
Like Apple Computer's iMac, the e-Vectra has no floppy drive.
Most PC's still come with a floppy drive as standard equipment.
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