Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.
Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.
Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has helped usher in now-common features like the mouse and the 3.5-inch floppy disk.
We had dot-matrix printers, and floppy disk drives and cassette tape players strewn across every desk in our house.
Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
The NAND type could contain more than double the amount of information and be slower if used like a floppy disk or hard drive.
Yes, PCs initially had to be told to save and it would have been ludicrous to try and track revisions on an 88KB floppy disk.
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Indeed, this bargain Zeos comes with a paltry half-megabyte memory and a 42-megabyte hard drive, and lacks a floppy disk drive for the new 3-inch disks.
The original Mac dumped the 5-inch disk for a 3.5-inch floppy, and the first iMac was one of the first desktops without a floppy disk drive.
So obsolete, in fact, that it may quickly join the ranks of such Sony success stories as the hard drive floppy disk and the Betamax video format.
Finally the camera stores the compressed image file on anything from a flash memory card to a floppy disk for later downloading to a computer or printer.
"Over time, an optical disc will be as much of an historical curiosity as a floppy disk, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
Plus, users don't have to worry about toting around a floppy disk or flash drive--all they have to do is log on to pick up working on projects where they left off.
"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.
But with games like Natas, named for a virus that spread via floppy disk in 1992, Van Acker says he hopes to fill a niche for true beginners learning the basics of web attacks and web security.
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The 5.27 megabits of data are more than 600 times bigger than the largest data set previously encoded in DNA. It is the equivalent of the storage capacity of a 3.5-inch floppy computer disk.
The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.
Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.
Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.
The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.
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