Sentence examples for the diskette from inspiring English sources
noun
A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.
All can hold far more data than the diskette.
Yet it is the abundance of options that has kept the diskette around so long.
A nifty new external hard drive is trying to become the diskette of its generation.
Computer makers have had mixed success in eliminating the diskette drive.
If I reformat the diskette, won't I lose all my files?
Sometimes pulling back the metal shutter on the edge of the diskette and blowing gently on the surface of the diskette can dislodge any debris that may be causing problems.
Within a few hours, the diskettes from almost all electronic booths had been scanned and the results were out.
If your PC has a CD recorder, you can copy files from the diskettes onto the computer and then record them to a compact disc.
The diskettes were then placed in a special cylindrical alumina crucible, 0.7 cm in diameter, and carefully compressed using a small piston before being subjected to TG analysis under a forced air flow (0.1 dm3 min–1) at a heating rate of 10 °C min 1.
Contrary to numerous colourful reports, neither this disk nor the diskettes embedded in the artist's book were ever actually hacked in any strict sense.
Contrary to numerous colorful reports, the diskettes were never actually "hacked"; instead the poem was manually transcribed from a surreptitious videotape of a public showing in Manhattan in December 1992, and released on the MindVox bulletin board the next day; this is the text that circulated widely on the Internet.
