The Computer Dictionary

Floppy Disk
Floppy Disc
Floppy

An old form of easily transportable data storage device, a floppy disk could hold only up to 1.44 MB of data.  While quite a small amount of data by today's standards, they were very commonly used for rebooting a PC, backing up data, transferring data from one computer to another, and many other uses where a large amount of storage capacity was not needed. No longer popular, the floppy disk drive no longer comes with new computers. The USB has made the floppy unpractical.

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