floppy disk

• floppy disc

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floppy disk (plural floppy disks)

1. (computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
   • 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

     A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.

   • 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.

• disk / diskette
• floppy
• floppy diskette

• flippy disk / flippy diskette
• floppy disk drive

• → Italian: floppy disk
• → Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)
• → Welsh: disg hyblyg (calque)

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• floppy disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:floppy disk on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Unadapted borrowing from English floppy disk.

floppy disk m (invariable)

1. floppy disk

• floppy disk in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana