Sentences with phrase «floppy drives»

«We got rid of parallel ports, the serial bus, floppy drives, physical keyboards on phones — do you miss the physical keyboards on your phone?

Whether it is the trend of leaving floppy drives behind or of developing computing devices with USB Type - C ports, the Cupertino giant has brought several changes in the past that are now become a part of our lives.

For example USB floppy drives will need a new driver (there's one on Windows Update that works with most models).

While best practice dictates that data is transferred from old storage formats onto back - up tapes or, increasingly, the cloud, in our experience old floppy drives never die, they just get put into boxes in a cupboard or an off - site facility.

It doesn't look like it's easy to come by the 5.25 ″ floppy drives, but I doubt I have more than a handful of those around.

This, after all, was the company that famously eliminated floppy drives, CD - ROM drives and dial - up modems.

Dell, Hewlett - Packard and other companies dumped the floppy drives and dial - up modems from their standard PCs, too.

Most computers of this era had dual floppy drives and many people shared floppy disks, so the virus was replicated a lot.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

Jobs, once again CEO of Apple, announced the iMac in 1998, an all - in - one computer that not only abandoned the drab beige boxes in favor of multiple colors, and also was the first notebook to eschew a floppy drive.

On the other hand, Apple has faced criticism before for leaving legacy technologies behind, including the floppy drive on the iMac, the CD drive on the MacBook, and Flash support on mobile.

It's probably been years since you pined for the blistering speed of a dial - up modem and a decade since you wished you had a floppy drive.

«You don't automatically get a floppy drive anymore,» agreed Langlie, «but they still can be necessary, particularly in educational settings.»

The laptops do not have either a CD or floppy drive.

I have no idea if Apple would go in this direction, especially now that they own Beats, but few thought it a good idea to get rid of the floppy drive, or later the CD drive either.

We can read centuries - old paper books, but who has a floppy drive anymore?

And unlike the E2035, this model blessedly includes a media card reader, in combination with a floppy drive.

Earliest Gaming Memory: My earliest video game memory would be Cosmo on Windows 95 on a 5.25 floppy drive.

The game came on a floppy drive, and the label said «DOOM - IDDQDIDKFA».

The history of gaming is littered with long - forgotten classics, great games rendered unplayable due to compatibility issues, or the lack of a 5.25 ″ floppy drive!

Hard copies can be in the form of CD, floppy drive, pen drive.

Comparative raters ample stalk from the beginning of 9 - inch monotonous monitors, floppy drive, just like the personal computers today.

- Lego car with electric motor scavenged from a floppy drive + 9V battery (grade school first project)

If you've got drives in My Computer that you never access, such as a USB Flash drive that you are using solely for ReadyBoost, a floppy drive, or a network drive only used for a particular piece of software, then you might want to simply hide the drive from your computer.

It looks like a legitimate (albeit tiny) Macintosh, and even comes equipped with the floppy drive cutout.

Not exact matches

* Power - up from a floppy disk in the A drive.

It's a scenario that played out when Facebook overhauled the social network's interface and in 1998 when Apple released the iMac G3 without a 3.5 - inch floppy - disc drive.

Remember the days when being a homesteader required a covered wagon, a trip to the general store, and a computer with a floppy disc drive?

And of course, that number doesn't include any forwarding - via - email, thumb drive, printout, floppy disk, microdot...

And of course, that number doesn't include any forwarding - via - email, thumb drive, printout, floppy disk, microdot, carrier pigeon, etc..

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.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have thousands of hard drives, CDs, Zip drives, and floppy disks filled with data that was collected ever since data could be stored.

It was only when cheap, durable, compact USB thumb drives appeared in 2000 that floppies — by then downsized to a 3.5 - inch hard - shell version — started to look archaic.

Hard drives got better and more affordable through the 1980s, yet the floppy disk still flourished.

Instead, Apple's mass storage system was a $ 495 floppy disk drive using disks that held 140 kilobytes of data apiece.

Today the same $ 50 you might have paid for a 10 - pack of diskettes back in 1980 buys a 32 gigabyte thumb drive — the equivalent of a stack of floppies taller than the Golden Gate Bridge.

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

In response, I related an incident in which a student had lost a metal protector from a 3 1/2 - inch floppy inside the disk drive.

«Some computers now are coming without A drives (floppy disk drives),» said Thompson.

The shift action is less floppy, the steering feel is better (although not great), and it offers more driving character.

We also liked the space - efficient 7 - in - 1 media - card / floppy combo drive, which takes up only a single front - panel 3.5 - inch bay.

Fastest - ever 3D gaming performance in CNET Labs; speedy optical drives; 7 - in - 1 media - card / floppy combo drive; Far Cry and Doom 3 included.

The Good Fastest - ever 3D gaming performance in CNET Labs; speedy optical drives; 7 - in - 1 media - card / floppy combo drive; Far Cry and Doom 3 included.

One of the first, it had 256K of RAM and a 1.2 MGB floppy disk drive.

Filling up a hard drive with comics is easier, cheaper, and more aesthetically pleasing, than having a stack of floppies on your coffee table.

Do you still have access to a floppy disk drive?

In 1980 I came across an Olivetti ET351 with a floppy disk drive and immediately purchased it.

In those days, the IBM PC was a 64k (expandable to 128k) system with dual 360k floppies, a green monitor, and an optional 20 MEGABYTE hard drive cost $ 10,000.

In just the past 60 years, we've seen the progression from magnetic disk drives (e.g., floppy disks) to optical devices (e.g., CD - ROM) to web - based systems (e.g., the cloud).

If you want someone to give it a read before you send it out to publishers, you save it to a floppy disk, a CD, or a thumb drive and deliver it to them in person like some sort of caveman.