Meaning & use
Diskettes
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Small, portable magnetic storage disks used in early computers to save and transfer data, also called floppy disks.
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He found a box of old diskettes containing his college essays.
The software originally shipped on a set of five diskettes.
A note on using this word
Diskettes were the standard portable storage medium from the late 1970s through the 1990s before being replaced by CDs and USB drives.
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floppy disks
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