| 单词 | floppy disk |
| 例句 | She switched on the detector and then took a floppy disk from her pocket and slipped it into the computer that controlled the Cave. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He straightened up his desk, shut down his computer, and removed a floppy disk that contained his daily diary, his “Chronology of Events.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He inserted the floppy disk and began typing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Halliday had first started programming, the poor kid hadn’t even had access to a floppy disk drive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The inner sleeve and the back were framed in the shape of a floppy disk, a mere data container as it were. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z What better way for DMX to get over his fear of the Google than by getting a tattoo of the floppy disk emoji? Here are 8 unsolicited suggestions to celebrities for emoji tattoos 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z And not just because it’s hard to construct thrilling action sequences out of microchips, floppy disks and coffee breaks. On ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ It’s Imitation vs. Invention 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z We are meant to take amusement from the sheer iteration, and increasing abstrusity, of the callbacks to floppy disks, shoulder pads, cassingles, Crystal Pepsi, and Jane Krakowski in the original Broadway production of “Starlight Express.” “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z She wore pigtails, a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, a long skirt, Doc Martens and cat-eye makeup as she languidly tried vocal takes on fuzzy old microphones and sourced sound-effect samples from a pile of dusty floppy disks. Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z They date back in places to the dawn of the 1990s, to typescripts and floppy disks now as outmoded as tablets of chiseled stone. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The search turned up an Amiga computer and lots of floppy disks and led Arcangel to approach Carnegie Mellon for help in cataloguing what was on the storage media. Warhol works found on Amiga disks 2014-04-24T11:24:28Z Some of the technology is dated — note the floppy disks and the Nintendo 64 game system — but in other ways, the piece looks as relevant as ever. Art Review: ‘Jason Rhoades: Four Roads’ at Penn 2013-12-19T23:02:30Z Dig into that forgotten desk drawer and you’ll find dozens of America Online CD’s stashed alongside floppy disks, joysticks, and tape drives. When modems used to hiss 2013-01-29T23:12:00Z The members of an upper-middle-class New York household share a single desktop computer, with a dot-matrix printer and a slot for floppy disks. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z No. 3 - Better Credit Cards for All.American credit cards are so antiquated we might as well still be using floppy disks in our computers or playing Pacman on Atari. Frugal Traveler Blog: For Obama and Romney, a To-Do List for Travelers 2012-08-14T21:48:46Z The black floppy disk holds a play he wrote in college. At the Dumbo Arts Festival, a Dumpster Full of Memories 2011-09-22T21:31:36Z The machine was beige with a monochromatic green screen that sat above two floppy disk drives. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an Action-Adventure Game 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Hard drives, folders, three‑ring binders, spiral‑bound notebooks and floppy disks contained printed chapters, sheaves of handwritten pages and notes. In search of David Foster Wallace's Pale King 2011-04-08T09:17:13Z “I consider myself pretty digitally native, but I can still recall floppy disks. That’s cuneiform tablets to Victor. He grew up completely immersed in this.” Teens Cash In on the NFT Art Boom 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z So I drove back to London listening to a tape of Blue Monday with another floppy disk lying on the passenger seat. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z By the time I got home, I knew the sleeve would replicate a floppy disk, with three holes cut in it through which you could see the metallic inner sleeve. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z But energetic fans sustained the work, with zines passed around on floppy disks, photocopied and then read online. Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z IBM, for example, disputes that he invented the floppy disk, and I daresay there are alternative versions of his assertion that he invented karaoke. Kids in care and The Invention of Dr Nakamats 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z “A floppy disk?” he writes, paraphrasing a security expert. Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z I grew up in a moment between analog and digital, taking homework to class on floppy disks and later experiencing high school through the exacting prism of Facebook. Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The circular forms of case-less floppy disks are mounted in orderly rows. Review | In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z To select the songs for this performance, she spent hours combing through his tapes, notebooks and floppy disks at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Rarely Heard Jonathan Larson Works Will Be Performed at 54 Below 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z You will try to take a bite of a sandwich, and — crunch, you have bitten into a floppy disk of sources and methods from 1993. Opinion | Classified documents are everywhere! They are coming for us all! 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Netflix opens 'immersive' store for fans of popular shows 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats. Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Steidel Wall started at the agency in 1991 as an archivist trainee, working on issues from establishing data standards to digitizing records on floppy disks. Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Figure 22.13 An electromagnet induces regions of permanent magnetism on a floppy disk coated with a ferromagnetic material. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Miller, 74, has balked at computers and phones since floppy disks were around — “I took a computer class and I just hated it,” she said. What’s an app? Seniors get up to speed at D.C. tech workshops. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z These floppy disk drives handle the low tones, while the scanner section uses the scanners’ larger motors to provide the higher pitches. This PC orchestra, built from 512 floppy disk drives, is wondrous to hear and behold 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z A Japanese government committee has discovered about 1,900 areas in which businesses are required to use storage media like floppy disks when making applications or holding data. Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Old devices won’t be able to send a text message or dial 911, placing them firmly in the realm of the arcane, in the company of floppy disks and rotary phones. BlackBerry’s classic smartphone stops working Tuesday 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s an idea that’s likely intuitive to any computer user who remembers the floppy disk. Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Scroll through the emoji keyboard and you'll see plenty of pictures of redundant tech: a pager, a fax machine, even a floppy disk because once an emoji is added, it never gets removed. Face palm: When the emoji you want doesn't exist 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Image: Windows Latest Hopefully this also means Windows will never ask you for a floppy disk drive when you dig into Device Manager to update a driver. Microsoft is finally ditching its Windows 95-era icons 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Turning to storage devices, he asked: "Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?" Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The nostalgia factor is real with these floppy disk coasters. Last-minute tech gifts to finish up your Christmas shopping 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z In 1991, as a college student, he started Potomac Computer Systems, selling games on floppy disks via mail from his parents’ basement. To Fight Apple and Google’s Grip, Fortnite Creator Mounts a Crusade 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z "I haven't seen a floppy disk probably since the 1980s," she says. Face palm: When the emoji you want doesn't exist 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Not a pocket-sized terabyte hard drive, not a compact disc — an actual floppy disk. Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Officials in the US were also discovered to still be using floppy disks to manage their nuclear weapons force during the 2010s - though this practice was reportedly scrapped by the end of the decade. Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z With that in mind, the team turned their attention to a pile of nearly 40 floppy disks where they thought the source code for the game might be located. Go read this story about how a lost NES game was recovered after 30 years 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z He wore a T-shirt with the slogan “Never forget” and illustrations of a cassette tape, a VHS video cartridge and a floppy disk. Leaving Lockdown, Entering Recession: Strike in Spain Shows Workers’ Fears 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “They literally still ran our nuclear codes on floppy disks.” I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers. Then I Became One. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z They stockpile essentials and everything else — hand puppets, floppy disks, Snapple bottle caps — amassing so much it becomes a barrier between them and the rest of society in a self-imposed isolation. The 44 best TV shows to binge while self-quarantining, according to TV experts 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z According to Tom Persky, a floppy disk expert quoted by the NYT, it’s surprisingly common to find floppy disks still in old industrial machines and medical devices. America’s nuclear forces finally drop ancient 8-inch floppy disk system 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A moment that many of us in our movement could never have anticipated during the brief legal trouble following the floppy disk bonfire of ’02. Opinion | Luddites Shall Inherit the Earth 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z When the computer system freezes, employees reach for a floppy disk. Meet the Curiosity-Seekers and Die-Hards at the Last True Blockbuster 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The computer system must be rebooted using floppy disks that only the general manager - a solid member of Gen X - knows how to use. Be Kind, Please Rewind: Oregon Blockbuster is last on Earth 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The computers must be rebooted using floppy disks. AP PHOTOS: World’s last Blockbuster a tribute to Gen X past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Customers used to pay big upfront fees for floppy disks or CD-ROMs, and repeat the process whenever an update came out. Even plumbers need software: How Glendale's ServiceTitan became a billion-dollar start-up 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The mod will also be available as a limited edition physical release, including a USB stick made to look like a floppy disk. Doom is getting a 25th anniversary mod from the game’s co-creator 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Just as floppy disks disappeared and optical disks are becoming less common, modern storage media such as memory cards and USB sticks are likely to be supplanted by newer technologies. Saving the digital world 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, currently in residence up in, well, space, discovered a treasure trove of floppy disks tucked away in one of the lockers on-board. The International Space Station is full of floppy disks 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The presence of outmoded past technologies such as the floppy disk and fax machine on emoji keyboards in 2018 is an aberration, says Lee, blaming “a legacy regime” on the Unicode subcommittee. From hijabs to pretzels – what makes an emoji? 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, the floppy disk was where we stored our data. Where are NI's remaining red phone boxes? 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Sweeney began designing his own games at age 21, packaging them on floppy disks and sending them through the mail. ‘Fortnite’ phenomenon turns ‘workaholic’ game developer into billionaire 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Even the IBM computers are running the same floppy disks from the 1990s, she said, shocking the younger employees. 'Why are you still here?' Inside the last Blockbuster in America 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z They were shown 12 pictures of relevant objects from the past – typewriter, Nokia mobile phone, overhead projector, floppy disk, cassette, pager etc. Don’t let bitcoin greed blind you to the potential of blockchain technology | John Naughton 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z It was an MS-DOS game that booted directly from a floppy disk, and set the stage for Microsoft’s adventures in gaming. Microsoft’s new gaming cloud division readies for a future beyond Xbox 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Over the years we've entrusted our writing, business documents, music and art to such now defunct formats as punch cards, magnetic tape, floppy disks and Zip disks. How to Fight Format Rot 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s a picture of a floppy disk, accompanied by the claim that a kid thought it was a real-life version of the “save” icon. Why is this floppy disk joke still haunting the internet? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It used a 5 ¼-inch floppy disk and didn’t have a hard drive. How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “The current laws were written for the era of the floppy disk, not the world of the cloud,” Smith wrote. Supreme Court to consider major digital privacy case on Microsoft email storage 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “The current laws were written for the era of the floppy disk, not the world of the cloud,” Microsoft said in an official statement today. Microsoft’s fight with the feds over foreign servers is headed to Supreme Court 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z BANGALORE, India — IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk. IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He grabbed a new picture of a floppy disk, added his own spin, and hit Tweet. Why is this floppy disk joke still haunting the internet? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z They were all stored on a 5 ¼-inch floppy disk that was destroyed in 1988 when his two-year-old son ravaged it with the stapler. How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He was stuck with a box of unsold 3.5-inch floppy disks. Songbringer is a trippy take on Zelda that’s different every time you play 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In two years, the PC industry had moved to 3.5 inch floppy disks. Three iPhone 8 Features That Could Transform Your Smartphone 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Last year, the Government Accountability Office released a report that disclosed that the United States military continues to rely on 1980s computing software to regulate its nuclear weapons, including floppy disks. Editorials from around New England 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Old iterations of the floppy disk meme are not hard to find. Why is this floppy disk joke still haunting the internet? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z How did you go about finding things like floppy disks, pay phones, and the old 1990s Apple computer? How Landline’s creators built a family drama around pay phones, floppy disks, and an Apple IIGS 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Not only are significant amounts being generated, but the technology used to store it keeps becoming obsolete, like floppy disks. Who needs hard drives? Scientists store film clip in DNA 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z A good example of this is when Apple put a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive in its very first Mac, at the now iconic desktop computer's launch in January 1984. Three iPhone 8 Features That Could Transform Your Smartphone 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Briefcase originally worked by connecting the computers or using a floppy disk as the transfer device back in the 1990s. Trading in a Briefcase for a Drive in the Sky 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The floppy disk lives on as technical shorthand instead of a physical object — that is, until everyone rightfully adopts the “ctrl/command + S” shortcut. Why is this floppy disk joke still haunting the internet? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The Pentagon has continued to use floppy disks — years after many consumers stopped — to manage its nuclear arsenal. What you need to know about Trump’s meeting with tech CEOs 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Kushner highlighted some astonishing examples of outdated federal IT infrastructure, including the fact that the defense department still uses 8-inch floppy disks on some of its legacy systems. Trump tells tech CEOs that Washington needs to 'catch up with the revolution' 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The PC industry had rallied around 5¼-inch floppy disks as the de facto medium for storing data. Three iPhone 8 Features That Could Transform Your Smartphone 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z There was also a box of floppy disks on the floor, a latex glove and some duct tape. Suspect in death of Pamela Butler told witness it was ‘easy’ to get rid of a body 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Outside experts always groan that government institutions are running outdated systems that still rely on floppy disks, and that this is a function of some combination of government waste, idiocy and ubiquitous Luddite-ism. Perspective | I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z And in the 1990s I’d straighten them to pop a software floppy disk from a defective hard drive. From the mundane to the divine, some of the best-designed products of all time 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z One document, for instance, discussed ways to quickly copy 3.5-inch floppy disks, a storage device so out of date that few people younger than 35 have probably used one. C.I.A. Scrambles to Contain Damage From WikiLeaks Documents 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z When Ron Gula joined the National Security Agency in the mid-1990s, the world was still storing information on floppy disks. Ron Gula, NSA hacker-turned-CEO, steps into the investment space 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But there was a time — the mid-1990’s — when viruses were more like pranks, spread via infected floppy disks instead of the Internet. What It Looked Like to Get a Computer Virus in 1995 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z When is the last time you saw a floppy disk? Dakota County officials find digital storage not the best 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Alcoholism, loyalty and prejudice are hinted at. There are nods to early ’90s touchstones such as floppy disks or abstract graphics or even hidden darkrooms, the latter always good for an eerily vintage vibe. 'Virginia' is the video game world's answer to 'Twin Peaks' 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Rather than fishing lures, it held a floppy disk of his beats. Backstabbing, Moogs and the funky worm: how gangsta rap was born 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Decades earlier, Apple released its first iMac without a floppy disk drive, a risky move in an era before CDs became the dominant medium. Apple Made 2 Surprising Moves With the New iPhone 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It used a 3½-inch disk on its desktop computers, rather than the standard 5¼-inch floppy disk; and more recently it eliminated the CD drive and several ports from its laptops. Apple Moves Toward a Wireless Future, One Tweak at a Time 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z By far the most controversial feature, however, is the one that will be missing: a headphone jack, which apparently is going the way of the floppy disk and the folding map. Rumor mill churns for months about new iPhone lacking headphone jack 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Fact Check: Among Mr. Thiel’s claims was that “our government is broken. Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks.” Republican Convention Night 4: What You Missed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Meier said educators have been trying to use “Civilization” since the days it was played on eight 5.25-inch floppy disks. Videogame ‘Civilization’ to Make Inroads in Classrooms 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But, just more than a decade later, Sony - the inventor of the floppy disk - announced it was killing off the storage device. Fans angry over 'missing' iPhone 7 headphone socket - BBC News 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z America’s nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk. The real reason America controls its nukes with ancient floppy disks 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Computers used outdated technologies, such as floppy disks and archaic operating systems. Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z According to the report: “Department of Defense uses 8-inch floppy disks in a legacy system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation’s nuclear forces.” Republican Convention Night 4: What You Missed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In some industries, floppy disks are used in machines that sit on production lines and those chunks of industrial plants are unlikely to be shut down, changed or updated any time soon, he said. The long legacy of the floppy disk - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The US military’s nuclear arsenal is controlled by computers built in the 1970s that still use 8in floppy disks. US nuclear arsenal controlled by 1970s computers with 8in floppy disks 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The floppy disks help run what’s known as the Strategic Automated Command and Control System, an important communications network that the Pentagon uses to issue launch orders to commanders and to share intelligence. The real reason America controls its nukes with ancient floppy disks 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “It runs on an IBM Series/1 Computer—a 1970s computing system—and uses 8-inch floppy disks…Replacement parts for the system are difficult to find because they are now obsolete.” The Pentagon’s Huge Atomic Floppies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z It makes an obvious case for using cloud storage, for services in general, but like the move away from floppy disks, or ODDs, change sometimes comes slowly. MacBook 2016 review: all of the possibilities, all of the realities 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In fact, he said, Dr Booth got perilously close to creating the first floppy disk. From punch cards to smartphones - BBC News 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z There was a plastic box with a hinged, smoked cover filled with 5.25-inch floppy disks alongside it, each one carefully protected by a waxed paper sleeve and identified with a sharpie-marked white sticker. Apple turns 40: remembering the products that mattered to us 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z As it happens, a similar logic underpins the U.S. military’s continued use of floppy disks. The real reason America controls its nukes with ancient floppy disks 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z And as for opening that file you saved on a floppy disk with an obsolete software program: Well, good luck. When our culture’s past is lost in the cloud 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z "They got rid of DVDs, they got rid of the floppy disk drive; they got rid of parallel ports, they're eventually getting rid of USB," says one expert. Weekend Edition: The week's best reads - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Remember when the Mac lost the floppy disk? Apple's iPhone 7 Will Likely Not Have a Headphone Jack 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z And something about using those floppy disks made sense. Apple turns 40: remembering the products that mattered to us 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Professional laboratory instruments and theatrical lighting systems with years of useful life ahead of them still operate with floppy disks, for example. Why People Stick With Outdated Technology 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Maybe you've never seen a 5 1/4 floppy disk before, or played Space Invaders on an original cabinet. Silicon City: New York's forgotten role in the history of computers 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z “His game was pretty amazing when you consider the number crunching it was doing at a time when the floppy disk contained only about 180K” of formatted media. The Short Life of the First Presidential-Election Video Game 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The art of shorthand, like floppy disks and VHS tapes, is another casualty of the digital age. New York Today: Empty City 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Back in days before we even used to use floppy disks, the kilo prefix used to mean 1024 for the computer industry, so 1024 kilobytes would be 1 megabyte. Windows 10's final build number is delightfully clever 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Try to imagine someone 80 years from now stumbling upon a box of floppy disks or a maltreated flash drive — how easily will she access those secrets? A beautiful but deadly art is reborn at the Nitrate Picture Show 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z From 8-inch to 5-and-a-quarter inch to 3-and-a-half-inch floppy disks to compact disks to thumb drives, we are continuously making progress in how we store our media — and trapping information in lost formats in the process. Google is not the answer: How the digital age imperils history 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Equipment upgrades: Two decades ago, Karevoll would drive to the company's offices in San Diego to pick up piles of floppy disks. John Karevoll finds success mining real estate data for news nuggets 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z During the last session, they tweeted in the third person, alphabetized their floppy disks and sent thousands of e-mails from their BlackBerrys. Robots are sneaking up on Congress (along with four other tech trends) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z "Here's a better question: Why do we need four different types of mailboxes? Or 25 different types of clocks? Or a VCR tape and floppy disk emoji? No one even uses those things anymore." Taco Bell really, really wants a taco emoji 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z How much Ms. Smith will be able to haul the Obama administration away from floppy disks is another question. Adviser Guides Obama Into the Google Age 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z A cloud-based world, to which we are headed, is likely to be simpler to manage than a world of shoe-boxes, floppy disks and thumb drives. Google is not the answer: How the digital age imperils history 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z "It was like there was a chorus of angels singing in the background. I can remember the sound of floppy disk driving in the drive. I was hooked." John Karevoll finds success mining real estate data for news nuggets 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Both books employed design and technology in their equations: McLuhan’s, a “mosaic” layout of the text, and Flusser’s released on the now-obsolete floppy disk. A Review of ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art From the Allan Chasanoff Collection,’ in New Haven 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Tetris was formally released in June 1984 by the Academy of Sciences, after initially spreading among academics and the computer literate by way of copied floppy disks. What to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z The computers use 8-inch floppy disks that became obsolete even before the era of personal computers. As U.S. nuclear arsenal ages, other nations have modernized 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Upgrading cost money; you had to go to the store to get the necessary floppy disk or a CD; the new OS was expected to be different and better in basically every way. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite review 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Whether it’s convincing a packed Harvard auditorium that floppy disks and the mouse are worthwhile ideas, or presenting a button-sized professional-grade camera, Apple’s releases never disappoint. A Look Back at Apple's 6 Biggest Product Releases 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The timing is uncertain, but that could make the factory’s output as useful as carbon paper or floppy disks. Nevada a Winner in Tesla’s Battery Contest 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z At some future date, the need for a debit card to debit card person to person system will hearken back to the days of the floppy disk and perhaps the 8-track tape. How Is Square Cash Doing? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z USB memory sticks quickly replaced floppy disks as a simple way to share large files between two computers. USB devices can 'secretly infect' PC 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z There were no rifles 25 years ago on Martha’s Vineyard, but there were strange-looking prototype cameras that captured images with small sensors and saved them on floppy disks. Digital Photography: A Look Back 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “They didn’t have any reason to meet a friend somewhere to get a copy of a program on a floppy disk when they could download it from the Internet.” Pioneer Houston PC club shuts down after 32 years 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z It was the de facto disk format for PCs of that era, but the floppy disk actually had a larger, 8-inch predecessor that was introduced in the early 1970s. Close Up: floppy disks and fashion in 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z In the video, the kids respond to an old pong-like game, floppy disks and the infuriating “error” message. Adorable kids react to an Apple computer from the 1970s — they are not impressed 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Most were meant to be disposable, and unless any of them show up on forgotten floppy disks at my parents’ house, almost all of them are long gone. Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal 2014-04-29T05:00:11Z I didn’t mind floppy disks tapes fading away because, while it offered a very important use at one time, it was annoying at times and unreliable at others. Blackberry v. Typo: Why Worry Over The 'Dead' Keyboard? 2014-03-30T13:58:00Z Some of the most celebrated innovations in technology have been manufactured products — the router, the graphics card, the floppy disk — while advances like IBM’s “business solutions” are viewed as little more than customer support. Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem 2014-03-12T09:00:16Z When they did respond, many reported that the data were simply not accessible, buried in an attic or saved on a now unreadable floppy disk. Where Have All The Data Gone? 2013-12-20T15:15:10.366Z As a result, some agencies still scan documents on to a computer and save them on floppy disks. Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks 2013-12-07T01:25:10Z You could load a program off tape cassette or floppy disk if you chose, but you could also simply begin typing a new one. Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal 2014-04-29T05:00:11Z “Apart from the floppy disk,” Serdar Yegulalp at Information Week asked in 2012, ”has there been any one peripheral for the PC that more people have tried, and failed, to kill, than the keyboard?” Blackberry v. Typo: Why Worry Over The 'Dead' Keyboard? 2014-03-30T13:58:00Z The investigation also found problems with the manner in which prisoners' records were handled, with unencrypted floppy disks regularly used to transfer large volumes of data between the prison's two separate networks. Ministry fine for prison data breach 2013-10-21T23:44:00Z There he came across an unusual bit of self-replicating code designed to copy itself on to any floppy disk inserted into affected computers. The strange life of John McAfee 2013-10-11T21:00:47Z Now government infrastructure experts are hoping that public embarrassments like the HealthCare.gov debacle will prompt a closer look at the government’s technological prowess, especially if it might mean getting rid of floppy disks. Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks 2013-12-07T01:25:10Z But it also meant that anybody could examine the original program for anything written in Microsoft BASIC, including commercial software distributed on cassette or floppy disk. Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal 2014-04-29T05:00:11Z To me the keyboard is more vinyl record than floppy disk — it connects at a place beyond convenience. Blackberry v. Typo: Why Worry Over The 'Dead' Keyboard? 2014-03-30T13:58:00Z Your comfortable model of the buying journey is as out-of-date as using floppy disks to store data. Your Brand Is Demand's Best Friend 2013-09-12T12:33:27Z Installation required two dozen 3.5-inch floppy disks, but it was a start. Oracle Linux Keeps Expanding With New Customers, Partners, And The Cloud 2013-07-23T13:00:00Z A spokesman for The Federal Register would not say which agencies still used floppy disks. Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks 2013-12-07T01:25:10Z These are the modern equivalent of floppy disks, if anyone remembers those. What should I look for when buying a desktop PC? 2013-05-23T12:07:01Z In actuality, it's just a dumb little sandbox filled with floppy disks, phone calls and lots of other hidden Easter eggs. Surgeon Simulator 2013 - review 2013-04-29T14:26:22Z This applies to odd sizes and formats of floppy disk and audio tape as well as to photographic negatives. Photography discs, importing televisions and all-in-one PC TVs 2013-04-11T15:19:33Z My first computer used a *cassette tape recorder* to store data, because Steve Wozniak hadn’t yet designed the controller software for Apple’s first floppy disk drive. What Was It Like To Be On The Internet In The 1980s? 2013-03-18T15:12:54Z Agencies are also permitted to submit the documents on CD-ROMs and floppy disks, but no on flash drives or SD cards. Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks 2013-12-07T01:25:10Z People were just making copies and passing the floppy disks around. The Most Important Business Meeting I Ever Had 2013-01-24T13:07:46Z The technology lab is so ancient, some of the computers still take 3-inch floppy disks. Should this school be saved? The fight over Chicago's Dyett High 2012-11-11T13:03:07Z From import cars to floppy disks and online music the trajectory is the same: At first something beats nothing and then that something gets better. Viewpoint: For-Profit Education is Not Dead Yet 2012-10-25T15:58:52Z In the old days it was through installing floppy disks or thumb drives. Best Way to Keep Your Computers Safe 2012-09-17T16:54:00Z The use of floppy disks peaked in American homes and offices in the mid-1990s, and modern computers do not even accommodate them anymore. Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks 2013-12-07T01:25:10Z Any computer gamer old enough to remember floppy disks probably paid at least a fleeting visit to SimCity, the legendary franchise that let players build -- and destroy -- the metropolises of their imaginations. SimCity 2013 Players Will Face Tough Choices on Energy and Environment 2012-03-12T22:15:00.230Z Q: I was looking at some old pictures that were still on a floppy disk, and I made the mistake of leaving the floppy in the drive when I shut down the computer. Patrick Marshall: Easier speed-ups than wiping your hard drive 2012-03-03T02:10:04Z During the previous decade, the company acquired companies that made in-vitro blood analyzers, floppy disks, aspirin and Lysol in an attempt to reverse the decline, the Harvard study said. Kodak?s Bet on Its Printers Fails to Quell the Doubters 2011-10-20T22:12:45Z For example, he favored one model of a disk drive — for reading computer programs stored on small, removable so-called floppy disks — while other members of the team championed another design. Unboxed: Steve Jobs and the Power of Taking the Big Chance 2011-10-08T19:56:44Z Twenty-somethings like myself remember being in elementary school and playing Oregon Trail on an early Macintosh with a floppy disk drive. Why are many millennials so dedicated to Apple? 2011-10-06T16:43:00Z Rare Book School has gone in the opposite direction, amassing a collection of 80,000 items that range from 7th-century papyrus fragments to manuscripts stored on Reagan-era floppy disks and unreadable on the modern computer. U-Va. program celebrates the embattled book 2011-07-29T00:45:00Z If fighters were buying a car for an operation, or even disc drives and floppy disks for their computers, they were required to return to base with a precise accounting of everything they had spent. Spies hack al-Qaida's Inspire magazine 2011-06-03T13:41:56Z In 1999 it was distributed by the club on floppy disk. Against the clock 2011-04-09T00:22:32Z Come to think of it, the whole concept of folders — which dates from the days when people stored data on puny floppy disks — is increasingly archaic. Amazon's Cloud Music and Storage: A Good Start 2011-04-01T07:50:00Z This task is made easier by our increasing reliance on "the cloud" to host our information - rather than physical storage such as hard drives for floppy disks. Life goes online after death 2010-12-03T15:39:42Z Even toward the end of the 90s, storing large amounts of data required several floppy disks or an expensive CD burner. Best of the Decade: Innovations 2009-12-16T17:00:00Z The company often irked suppliers and confounded pundits, for instance, when it chose to use 3.5-inch floppy disks instead of the more common 5.25-inch disks, or later, when it did away with floppy disks altogether. A Rotten Apple or Just Sour Grapes? 2010-06-23T18:27:00Z When Sony said this week it was halting the production of floppy disks, the Magazine set out this anachronistic computer storage medium. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z The floppy disk is the very symbol of storage; when you want to save a file, you go looking for that little icon that looks like a floppy. Whirr are they? 2010-04-28T08:53:00Z We're seeing yet another round of "the floppy disk is dead" stories this week after Sony announced that it would stop selling the things in Japan next March. Faster Forward: Sony move confirms floppy disk's death, but its icon lives on 2010-04-27T18:38:00Z In 2004, the MI6 station was still using floppy disks to transfer files but staff decided it would be quicker to use the memory capacity of a digital camera to transfer large files. Spy snapshot 2010-03-12T00:32:00Z Unless you allow others the right to further distribute information it is not really "free", even if you sometimes give it away at no cost on a floppy disk. Email 101 Here are 40 explanations for why floppy disks are still needed. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z Each time the cry goes up that the death knell has been sounded for the floppy disk. Whirr are they? 2010-04-28T08:53:00Z AAAS's capacity to download materials directly from the journal to a subscriber's printer, hard drive, or floppy disk helps ensure highly accurate transcription. Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts The next day she arrived with her duffel bag, a couple of books, a few boxes of floppy disks, and a backpack. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko They took all his floppy disks, though, interestingly, they left Knight Lightning in possession of both his computer and his modem. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier I am an artist from London and I use floppy disks to produce my paintings. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z Somewhere out there, the floppy disk is alive and well. Whirr are they? 2010-04-28T08:53:00Z You need the use of a computer of some kind, and Internet access is usual, though we have had some volunteers contribute texts on floppy disks. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 A special program is used to write the image files to floppy disk in raw mode. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage These 23,000 floppy disks also include a thus-far unknown quantity of legitimate computer games, legitimate software, purportedly "private" mail from boards, business records, and personal correspondence of all kinds. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier I've always used an old floppy disk as an ice scraper for the car, just the right combination of rigidity and flexibility. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z There are thousands of DOS-based computers running machinery in the print industry and all the software updates are on floppy disks. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z An unusual use is sewing machines - there are top-end models that accept embroidery designs stored either on a special cartridge on floppy disk. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z So you might have one filesystem on your hard disk, and another one on each floppy disk. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage He put the floppy disk onto the glass plate of a photocopier. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier As a blind computer technician and computer enthusiast I find floppy disks essential. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z My company still uses floppy disks by the tonne load. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z Disk images are files containing the complete contents of a floppy disk in raw form. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage It performs some minimal tests and then looks for a floppy disk in the first disk drive. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage These floppy disks, which remain in police custody today, offer a gigantic, almost embarrassingly rich source of possible criminal indictments. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier As a telecoms engineer, I have to add that there is still some test equipment out there that logs data only to floppy disks. Saving grace 2010-04-29T14:16:00Z Instead, each physical device such as a hard disk or floppy disk has one or more filesystems on it. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage But you may have to insert a floppy disk first. Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage |
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