diskette

[ US /dɪˈskɛt/ ]
[ UK /dɪskˈɛt/ ]

NOUN

a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price

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How To Use diskette In A Sentence

She broke open the diskette sleeve and took out the internal disk and dried it off thoroughly with a towelette.
With the appropriate tools, you can create diskettes that have 80 sectors and 24 tracks per sector, giving 1,920KB per floppy.
Modern motherboard chipsets will boot from a CD-ROM more easily than a floppy diskette.
The diskette service offers staff the possibility of browsing, searching, and running automated searches based on stored personal-interest profiles.
If you are not happy with the distribution, just pop the diskette out, throw it away (or reformat it) and reboot your PC.
INsert boot diskette in drive A : Press spacebar when ready.
CD-ROMs, diskettes, and network-based delivery to terminals and workstations have been available for at least 20 years.
These floppy diskettes while a blessing relative to earlier technology had limited storage capacity and were easily scratched causing them to lose information that may have taken days to retype.
Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is expressly limited to replacement of the diskette as provided above.
On the downside, MS-DOS is now so well hidden that it's a bit of an uphill task to create a boot diskette for tasks such as BIOS updating.

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