Glossary for Geospatial Science

floppy disks, floppies, diskettes, or flexible disks:  A thin, flexible magnetic disk for computer program and data files.  Floppies are inserted into a computer’s floppy disk drive much like a cassette tape is loaded into a tape player.  Floppy disks come in different sizes and capacities, and must be used in the right kind of drive and computer.  Floppies are slower and hold less data than a hard disk.  (See also: hard disk, RAM disk.)