Some viruses infected floppy disks so that systems were infected when the disks were read.
They flock to appearances by the hosts, who scrawl autographs on floppy disks.
If a firm sells software on floppy disks then the number of blank disks purchased can be used to verify sales.
The software that taught me touch typing came on multiple floppy disks.
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He tested his system in 1999 in Guinea, where a painfully slow Internet connection compelled aid workers to pass along floppy disks instead.
It can hold up 340M bytes of data, or the equivalent of what could be stored on 200 standard floppy disks, IBM said.
Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.
That's equal to 19 million floppy disks, a banking industry record.
By the early 1990s, viruses transmitted on floppy disks became ubiquitous.
Floppy disks, once ubiquitous, have all but vanished within 10 years.
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People were just making copies and passing the floppy disks around.
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In that case, North Dakota tried to argue that, as Quill software was physically in the state as floppy disks, they had a right to tax the corporation.
If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, you'll get the point at once: A record, unlike a book, is only as durable as our ability to play it back.
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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.
Because consumers must walk back and forth from the computer to the television set to drag and drop files onto the TakeTV, SanDisk Vice President Eric Bone says TakeTV relies on the old-fashioned "SneakerNet"--the tried and true technique of marching across the living room with stored data, an operation that dates back to the days of floppy disks, burnable CDs and DVDs.
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.
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