Computer makers have had mixed success in eliminating the diskette drive.
Volusia The Canvassing Board was advised during the evening of Nov. 7, 2000, that a malfunction of the diskette in the electronic ballot tabulating machine in precinct 216 caused an obviously erroneous report of the results in the presidential vote from that precinct.
Prior to the advent of the CD-ROM in the early 1990's, the diskette was undisputedly the No. 1 removable storage medium in the world.
If, as expected, there is a favourable response, starting with the 1994 issue the publication will also include an improved version of the diskette in French and Spanish.
The diskette is in the bookstores of Johnson & Wales University and the Culinary Institute of America (on whose board Mr. Schmidt is an emeritus member).
The diskette comes in MS Word and Macintosh versions and costs $54.95, plus $3.50 for shipping, from (800) 78001455.
The diskette icon in fact rankles because it is recent, not because it is old.
His student, the cerebrally cold and physically hot David David Selvass), crumples the diskette containing the work right in front of Jaume on two different occasions.
In its original form, the text of the poem was supposed to fade from the page and, in Gibson's own words, "eat itself" off of the diskette enclosed with the book.
Another function of the diskette, as an emergency disk to boot up a PC in case of a crash, has all but disappeared now that Windows uses its installation CD-ROM for that.
