Sentences with phrase «floppy disks for»

The Famicom Disk System utilized floppy disks for game storage and saving.

I would find articles on various stocks that I had interest in, and I would save them to the floppy disk for later review.

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One of them was Frank Ogden's The Last Book You'll Ever Read, notable not just for its breathlessly loony take on what the next century held for us, but also for including a complete digital copy of itself on a floppy disk stuck to the inside back cover.

With the government still using floppy disks and checking for Y2K compliance, the private sector's creativity will help move the Trump administration past the turn of the century, presidential advisor Jared Kushner said Monday.

Whatever the source, though, the prospective software buyer needs to know three things before laying out cash for the software (which usually amounts to a vinyl notebook containing a user's manual and one or two 5 1/4 - inch floppy disks).

There were probably times when such a tactic was effective (the 1970's for instance) but just like typewriters, floppy disks and VHS tapes the rest of the world has moved on.

For years, hard drives and floppy disks have employed magnetic materials to store data.

While my experience depended on floppy disks, the analog to today's classroom would be writing apps for smartphones or learning initiatives like the Hour of Code from www.code.org.

For those of us who grew up in the «olden days» of rotary phones, floppy disks, and even (gasp!)

Later II: I was just thinking back that a base - model Mac in 1984 (my first Mac) cost $ 2,495 (the equivalent of $ 5,000 in 2007 dollars *) for a computer with processing speed of 8 MHz and 128 K of memory (I bought lots of floppy disks).

For the price of that glorified floppy disk you could buy half a 3DS, and at least that comes packaged with an SD card!

Some very dedicated fans found a Japanese online auction for a floppy disk copy of Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushuu back in December, and proceeded to pool their money in order to win it.

The game is currently available free of charge directly from the Black Castle Software website, and can be played using your choice of either your favorite Commodore 64 emulator, or by using actual hardware if you can create floppy disks (or an equivalent method) for the system.

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It's the first console I have that uses disks instead of cartridges (except for playing floppy disks on PC which I did back in the day) and it's different in many ways.

While floppy disks are mostly regarded for the information they store, Gentry examines their aesthetics instead.

For his newest sculpture, the artist purchases used floppy disks and stacks them into towers.

We also have the 18 biometric «supertrees» that are turning Singapore into a lively forest, an artist who makes awesome portraits from old floppy disks and VHS tapes, a recipe for spicy three - bean chili, eco sandals that will knock your socks off, and more in our roundup of the best images on TreeHugger this week.

He talks about how a floppy disk majorly impacted his work in the legal field and changes he then worked towards for the betterment of his clients; an interesting and inspiring article to say the least.

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).

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

Create a folder inside the «C: \ dos» folder — for example, «C: \ dos \ INSTALL» — and copy all the files from your Windows 3.1 floppy disks to that folder.

Along the way, the stylish aluminium unibody design has been introduced, the 17 - inch model has been swapped for a 13 - inch one, the Retina display has arrived on the scene, and optical drives have gone the way of floppy disks and CRT monitors.

Just a few short years ago, all a PC needed for protection was a basic antivirus program to guard against any malware that arrived via an e-mail attachment, embedded in a shareware application or piggy - backed on a floppy disk.

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

While the removal of the port will help make the iPhone slightly thinner or increase the battery size, the main reason for the change is that Apple knows wired headphones have a limited future — just like floppy disks.

(For example, getting rid of the floppy disk drive on the first iMac, or going all - in on USB - C with the MacBook Pro.)

You send in the text of your von paper, by e-mail or on a floppy disk and, for $ 25, the company will post it on the World Wide Web after first converting it into HTML — the language used to create web pages.

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