Sentence examples for of the floppy from inspiring English sources

But not everyone thinks that voice mail is going the way of the floppy disk.

In that procedure, the surgeon cuts away some of the floppy upper palate to open the airway.

No one knows how today's technology may hold up and which methods of collection may go the way of the floppy disk, leaving a pile of pixels no one can read in 50 years.

Since the invention of the floppy disk drive (FDD) at IBM by Alan Shugart in 1967, diskettes have shrunk from 8 inches (about 20 cm) to the current standard of 3.5 inches (about 8.9 cm).

This case was not as serious as that of the missing hard drives, but Mr. Danneskiold said the disappearance of the floppy disks would be investigated by the Energy Department, which oversees the laboratory.

A standard element of technology that can be traced back to 1878 and the invention of the manual telephone exchange, the jack is apparently going the way of the floppy disk and the folding map.

New versions of the floppy-tie blouse and dress that Saint Laurent invented are all sheer, and designed to show.

He then put a model -- in one of the floppy-tie dresses that Prada revived this season -- in bed with Saint Laurent, a camera between them pointing, presumably, at a mirrored ceiling.

In April, as joyful chants of "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead!" reverberated through the streets of Glasgow, where I live, I heard the echo, as all South Africans surely did, of the floppy-bow-tied Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, calling the African National Congress a terrorist group.

By Zoë Wicomb In April, as joyful chants of "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead!" reverberated through the streets of Glasgow, where I live, I heard the echo, as all South Africans surely did, of the floppy-bow-tied Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, calling the African National Congress a terrorist group.

Corporations may like the security of eliminating the floppy drive and stopping amateurs from fiddling around inside the machine (by eliminating add-on cards).