0 a small, flat, square object made of plastic, used in the past to store information electronically --
1 a flat, circular device that has a magnetic covering, used to copy computer information and store it separately from a computer --
2 → floppy disk --
There was no copy protection and a manual was distributed as a file on the same diskettes as the program.
A blank unformatted diskette has a coating of magnetic oxide with no magnetic order to the particles.
The former of these partitions is visible and usable as in a normal diskette, and the latter hidden.
The diskette version had all of the ten pre-rolled missions on the disk, allowing them to be easily loaded up.
Software on self-booting diskettes (mainly games) does not have this problem since they have their own internal disk access code.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, shareware software was widely distributed over online services, bulletin board systems and on diskettes.
The classic example is an attempt to read from the floppy drive without a diskette loaded.
All participants were asked to work on the pre-competition assessment task and submit a floppy diskette containing the source code and executable of their programs.
