Sentences with phrase «floppy disks as»

Both new models feature slots for floppy disks as well as the company's proprietary MemoryStick flash media cards.

If I wanted to play games featuring this style, I would get my still functional Commodore - 64 and Vectrex out from storage — along with some floppy disks as well.

Frankly, folders in the digital world may be as absurd as using the floppy disk as icon for «saving» a file.

Not exact matches

as floppy disks and cell phones the size of Shaquille O'Neal's shoe.

It's also worth noting that Apple, along with Sony, had previously helped shift the industry from 5 - inch floppy disks to 3.5 - inch floppy disks in the early 80s — though that's not quite the same as removing them altogether.

RPI alumni have gone on to create inventions such as the floppy disk and the digital camera.

A floppy disk signified «save,» as it still does on many apps today.

Still, there's no doubt that data are disappearing, whether because researchers become difficult to find or because, as Vines also found, older data are stored using obsolete technology such as on floppy disks.

While computers did and still do foster pain and heartbreak (in the personal computer section, my blood pressure spiked as I glared at the double - floppy - disk - drive IBM PC that ate my files at random intervals in the late 1980s), the ingenuity behind them is inspiring.

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.

When Ali returns home late one morning after a drug - fueled evening, she stumbles upon a floppy disk containing her dad's collection of erotic poems referring to a mysterious woman identified only as «C.» Mortified, she becomes convinced that Alan is cheating on Pat and soon enlists Dana to help confirm her suspicions.

When Ali turns on her computer (with a special zoom - in on the floppy disk), she finds her father's erotic poetry to a woman who's simply referred to as «C.» Determined to out their father's affair, Ali and Dana play detective while also becoming closer in the process.

In the thinking of most reformers these include such things as educational television, personal computers complete with «turtles,» floppy disks, ãŸäŸ's, satellite transmissions, and video games.

As a storage medium, the disks also have a number of advantages over the conventional floppy disks that currently are standard on nearly all microcomputers.

Debate rages... When Peter James published his thriller Host on two floppy disks, in 1993, it was billed as the «world's first electronic novel», and attacked as a harbinger of the apocalypse which would destroy literature as we knew it.

On the opposite end, there's Heroine's Quest, about as old school as you can get without digging out your floppy disks.

One of the biggest was the Japan - exclusive Family Computer Disk System, which allowed for otherwise normal games but on floppy disk media, as well as certain other featuDisk System, which allowed for otherwise normal games but on floppy disk media, as well as certain other featudisk media, as well as certain other features.

The only historical piece Jones notes as missing being the rare dual - floppy - disk A Lisa 1, the original Mac's predecessor, which he's so far been unable to find.

OFFLINE services have included a publisher's catalog of titles (conceived digitally, born as paper) and distribution platforms — both analog and digital — for those titles: print, microforms, floppy disks, CD - ROM, DVD, and, more recently, the Internets (e.g., «interactive books,» pdf downloads).

From here, tap the floppy disk icon to save your QR code as a PNG image file.

Just as you can no longer buy a business laptop with a floppy - disk drive or a trackball, you should not be able to purchase a notebook with a 1366 - resolution screen.

Just as one can no longer buy a business laptop with a floppy - disk drive or a trackball, one should not be able to purchase a notebook with a 1366 - resolution screen.

No more sitting around for hours swapping floppy disks around as Nathan and I did 20 years ago.

Sometimes we use removable media such as CD - ROMs, floppy disks, and DVDs to install new programs to Windows.

Prior to Windows XP SP2, Autoplay is disabled by default on removable drives, such as the floppy disk drive (but not the CD - ROM drive), and on network drives.

Check all floppy disks, hard drives, self - made CDs, and any other removable media as well as your laptop and even your PDA.