floppy disk drive

Image: Windows Latest Hopefully this also means Windows will never ask you for a floppy disk drive when you dig into Device Manager to update a driver.

When Halliday had first started programming, the poor kid hadn’t even had access to a floppy disk drive.

A good example of this is when Apple put a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive in its very first Mac, at the now iconic desktop computer's launch in January 1984.

Decades earlier, Apple released its first iMac without a floppy disk drive, a risky move in an era before CDs became the dominant medium.

When Steve Jobs unveiled the original iMac, there was surprise that it was missing a floppy disk drive.