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diskette

[ dih-sket ]

noun

Computers.


diskette

/ »åɪ²õˈ°ìÉ›³Ù /

noun

  1. computing another name for floppy disk
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Origin of diskette1

First recorded in 1970–75; disk + -ette
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The plot also features a Chinese scientist who defects carrying a diskette containing a record of all the country’s most important and deadly biological weapons.

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BANGALORE, India — IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions such as the mainframe and the diskette.

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Better to empty the diskettes and cram their corpses with solid-state drives, keep the joke and the personality.

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The diskette’s program activated a modem: bop-bop-be-bop; a second of silence; and then the scratchy, explosive sound that signalled that my computer had connected to the Network of Networks.

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In his bags were film and diskettes full of classified documents for the Russians.

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