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floppy

Synonyms

Adjective

1. lax

Noun

1. diskette

2. floppy disk, magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, disc

Usage
HamsterOS lets you run a full GUI OS off a 1.44MB floppy disk - XDA
HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software - Tom's Hardware
HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop Onto 1.44 MB Floppy - Hackaday
The Floppy Disk Turns 50 - Royal Examiner
What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks - IEEE Spectrum
Floppy Eyelid Syndrome - The New England Journal of Medicine
Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears - Nature
Belmar Elementary's Newest Reading Buddies Have Four Legs, Floppy Ears, and a Big Summer Job - TAPinto
I plugged my old floppy disks into an Android - here's what happened - Pocket-lint
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks - Popular Science
You Can Fit an Entire OS and Web Server on a Floppy Disk - Hackster.io
All it takes to run Factorio off 1,000 floppies is to code your own file system and a week to load the game - PC Gamer
Developer turns old floppy drive into media remote for son - The Register
Airplanes Still Use Floppy Disks For Their Software - Here's Why - bgr.com
Fits on a floppy - Adafruit
The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy - Tom's Hardware
Self-assembly pathways towards floppy colloidal square lattices - Nature
Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows - Tom's Hardware
Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette - Tom's Hardware
I ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and here's how it went - XDA
I plugged a 3.5-inch floppy disk reader into my Android phone, and it just worked - XDA
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks - BBC
Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD - Tom's Hardware
Mum 'screamed and ran' after seeing baby 'floppy' at Somerset home - court - BBC
Sony's 200MB floppy disk was supposed to bury Zip drives—then it all fell apart in one month - How-To Geek
Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks - Tom's Hardware
Print Pixel Art To A Floppy Disk - Hackaday
From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion-dollar industry - The Conversation
Floppy Disks Just Became the Ultimate Kid-Proof TV Remote - TechEBlog -
Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram - Tom's Hardware
Air traffic still runs on floppy discs in places, so the FAA just picked 2 companies for a $26 billion radar overhaul - Fortune
America's Air Traffic Control Still Uses Floppy Disks: Here's The $12.5 Billion Fix - Simple Flying
From Floppy Disks to the AI Frontier: Microsoft’s Four Decades of Innovation in Ireland - Microsoft Source
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 - The Register
Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible - Hackaday
Zip drives were supposed to end the floppy era—until one design flaw destroyed everything - How-To Geek
In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev began breeding silver foxes for tameness alone; within 10 gener - The Times of India
Someone ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and it looks more fun than it should be - XDA
Someone ran Factorio off of 1,000 AOL floppy disks, and it took way too long - XDA
Diskette Game Floppy Flopper Is Certainly No Flop - Hackaday
Residents rally as search for missing police dog Floppy continues in Eastern Cape - Daily Maverick
Chivalware Preview – Bringing a floppy drive to a roguelite fight - TheSixthAxis
RFIDisk: When Floppy Drives Go Contactless - Hackaday
Stephen Hawking’s Floppy Disks & the Digital Legacy of Science: An Interview with Leontien Talboom - AIP.ORG
I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops - PC Gamer
forgotten computer floppy disks return to life as large-scale portrait paintings - Designboom
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch - Kottke.org
Before the USB flash drive: 5 'floppy killers' that lost the retro storage war - How-To Geek
San Francisco's Muni Metro Still Runs On Floppy Disks - Here's Why - bgr.com
Floppy disks, burned CDs, and tape drives: How we survived before the cloud - How-To Geek
Sony's 200MB floppy disk was supposed to bury Zip drives—then it all fell apart in one month - Yahoo Tech
Cisco: From the floppy disk to hyper-personalized AI - Network World
NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC - Hackaday
Linux's Floppy Disk Driver Code Sees Some Cleanups In 2025 - Phoronix
Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer — bulky 1982 Commodore 1541 5.25 inch drive packs a 1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU - Tom's Hardware
The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives - Gizmodo
Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years - Tom's Hardware
The SuperDisk was a better floppy, but the world didn't want a better floppy - How-To Geek
If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games - Currently.com
This Engineer Got a Tesla To Play Rick Astley From a Retro Floppy Disk - Hypebeast
Playing with Floppy Disks — Literally! - Hackster.io
Don’t Copy That Floppy: King’s Quest and the Fight Against Piracy - University of Waterloo
How Come Wild Animals Don't Have Floppy Ears? The Clue Is In Your Dog - IFLScience
YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch - Engadget
US prisoner says legal fight trapped in 1985 as floppy disks replace modern storage for crucial court appeal documents - TechRadar
Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system - Yahoo
Floppy the police dog found shot dead in bush after heroic pursuit of armed robbers - News24
Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? - TechRadar
New Jersey inmate claims outdated floppy disks jeopardize legal rights while outside world uses terabyte SSD drives daily - Yahoo
3.5-inch floppy concept becomes packaging for SD cards, protecting today’s terabyte storage with retro charm - TechRadar
First-Time Parents' Gut Instinct About Son Led to a Diagnosis So Rare That Roughly Only 50 Cases in the World Exist - Parade
Windows 95, With Just A Floppy Drive - Hackaday
This 25-Year-Old Sony Camera Uses Floppy Disks Instead of SD Cards - Currently.com
Sun Hat Vacay Hat Myaraa Always On Vacay String Bow Floppy Hat - consumerthai
San Francisco's SFMTA train system has been running on floppy disks for decades; city fears 'catastrophic failure' before upgrade - ABC7 Bay Area
A step back in time as a YouTuber revives floppy disk technology using tools from today’s maker world - TechRadar
Introducing a Limited Floppy Edition of Cyberpunk 2077! - cyberpunk.net
A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote - TechRadar
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks - Reuters
Muni says it’s ready to modernize S.F.’s subway, by tossing the floppy disks that control it - San Francisco Chronicle
Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks - BBC
Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks - BBC
Challenge: The Floppy Disk and the ‘Save’ Icon - SitePoint
Somehow Modern German Warships Are Still Using 1970s 8" Floppy Disks And Saab Is Involved - The Autopian
Kilobytes of Cultural Heritage: Preserving Collections on Floppy Disks - Library of Congress (.gov)
Floppy iris syndrome risk: Study finds women more susceptible, key drugs identified - Ophthalmology Times
Structure and activation mechanism of the Makes caterpillars floppy 1 toxin - Nature
Pink Floppy Disc and The Bitles: Embracing the future of AI music - New Scientist
Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die - WIRED
Expert on floppy iris syndrome offers practical pearls for success - Ophthalmology Times Europe
Do U.S. air traffic control systems still rely on floppy disks? - govtech.com
I ran an OS off a floppy disk and here's how it went - XDA
Storage vault: The rise and fall of the floppy disk - IBM
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks - Ars Technica
This whack-a-mole with floppy disks running on an Amiga looks equal parts hilarious and surprisingly difficult - PC Gamer
Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places - ZDNET
Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks (Published 2024) - The New York Times
Paper strips and floppy disks still used for national airspace system in US - NBC4 Washington
Why the floppy disk may never die - IT Pro
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board votes to upgrade Muni's rail system from floppy disks - ABC7 Bay Area
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'floppy'
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Misspellings - Typos
flloppy,   floppu,   flopoy,   flop[y,   floopy,   loppy,   flpppy,   f;oppy,   flppy,   flopy,   dloppy,   flo[py,   foppy,   ffloppy,   flopyp,   flopy,   floppyy,   floppt,   flopppy,   flopppy,   flopp,   fkoppy,   gloppy,   lfoppy,   flooppy,   flippy,   folppy,   flpopy
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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