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minidisk en · NOUN

Etymology

From mini- + disk.

Meanings

1. (dated) A 5.25-inch floppy disk.
   • Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques. A smaller 5-inch-diameter disk, referred to as a minidisk, is also available. Data-storage capacity is typically 70,000 to 100,000 bytes. 1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239:
   • From minidisks, floppy disks, all the way to high-capacity hard disks, the flexibility of CP/M 2.0 makes it a truly universal operating system. 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 1:

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