Sentences with phrase «of floppy disk»

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

Loss of floppy disk, matte display, 17 ″ portable and most recently the USB - A connector) all come to mind.

Nowhere to be found the frag enthusiasts or Columbine tributaries that one used to expect from the definition of floppy disk era indies like DOOM and Duke Nukem.

A new study has analyzed which stereotypes are still holding fast — and which are going the way of the floppy disk.

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).

I could hear myself echoing many of your statements — especially about the diferent formats of floppy disks.

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.

Not exact matches

In 1971, IBM reshaped the way people thought about data storage when it released one of the earliest and most convenient mediums: the floppy disk.

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

Somewhere in your closet, you probably have a stack of VHS tapes or floppy disks.

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.

«Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine i recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On - Line.

A virus is a computer programme that causes serious damages to hard disks or floppies by erasure or distortion of files.

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.

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

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..

To complement their grants expertise, Quick and New include a number of do - it - yourself worksheets in a floppy disk that accompanies each chapter in the guide.

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.

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

By the time the industry abandoned the floppy - disk and CD - ROM standards, our collections of those disks were rendered worthless.

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.

I am a musician, artist, student, tattoo enthusiast, traveler, and IT professional solving all of your technological issues one floppy disk at a time.

This ripe, relationship comedy is set in the 1990s, a time of pay phones, cigarette - friendly bars, floppy disks, and harder - to - keep secrets.

One night, Ali happens upon a floppy disk full of Alan's erotic poetry, directed at a woman who's clearly not their mother, and Landline spirals off on a series of funny, if often disconnected, tangents about the family's collective meltdown.

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.

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.

The days of very complete and comfortable cars that start at less than $ 15,000 can seem like a thing of the past, along with floppy disks, pagers and «Night Court» marathons.

I have one of those e-books distributed on floppy disk.

While the stories were basic and the main characters fantasy versions of me, reading over my notes (the stories themselves are on some long - ago lost floppy disks) made me realise that I was taking my writing way too seriously.

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

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

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.

Well, way back in 2012 when the internet was still in black and white and you had to get games on 3.5 inch floppy disks, Roll7 made a couple of prototypes in a simple game making tool called Clickteam Fusion.

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

Games distributed on floppy disks by small startup shops, and eventually compiled on compact devices, were often of significantly varying quality.

Like the PCs of the time, the Famicom Disk System used floppy disks, although the Disk System disks were of a proprietary format.

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.

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.

Eventually the abilities of cartridges overtook the Disk System, though a few floppy - based games continued to be released up until 1992 in varying forms.

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.

The designs could be saved to a floppy disk and shared, which makes Construction Set a sort of proto - Little Big Planet.

Head on over to eBay and you can participate in an auction to potentially obtain one of Doom 2 creator, John Romero's original floppy disks.

It's not just the size of the computers, it's the interfaces, the floppy disks, and the painful buffer times.

(I can't probe the floppy disks on which any trace of that process sits.)

Gavin says «That's maybe 5 generations of computer systems and the transition from 8 inch tapes, to floppies, to zip disks, to USB sticks etc..»

That's maybe 5 generations of computer systems and the transition from 8 inch tapes, to floppies, to zip disks, to USB sticks etc..