Floppy storage medium of old

Usage examples of disk.

Earth was new again, a dim reddish disk beside the blazing sun, Karpal rose to his feet and swung his arms cautiously, checking that none of his actuators had been weakened by thermal stress.

The butler tried hurling his tray at her, from clear across the pool, but the metal disk sailed in an airfoil curve and only smashed a window.

There are as many of these alphabets as there are positions of his disk, and this multiplicity means that Alberti here devised the first polyalphabetic cipher.

The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre.

Then me, Denster, and Elana spend the hours before dawn filling mail packages with audiocassettes, paper printouts, disks, and Mel seals.

It had been inside the HyperCray that Sergei Iyevenski and his team of bioorganic chemists simulated the process of growing a perfect molecular lattice prior to spending precious investment dollars running hybrid disks through the helifurnaces in the process area.

While I watched it squirted propellent from its blowhole, floated toward the flat of the disk.

It was by far the brightest light in the sky, except for the chill shrunken golfball of the Sun behind them, but it still showed no disk to the naked eye.

Whether these planets are the remnants of an earlier planetary system that somehow survived the supernova explosion that produced the pulsar, or whether they formed from the resulting circumstellar accretion disk subsequent to the supernova explosion, we do not know.

It was quite similar to the standard Legion eagle, but it bore a single disk, marked with the eye of Horus, rather than the civitas and the laurels.

Inside this disk, and the second that soon appeared, would be the original tissue samples from which the clonal matrixes had been grown.

It looked like a tech lab, with lots of comps, and a stack of rainbow disks was visible in an open desk drawer.

You may immediately roll out both crusts, or wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutesif this is more convenient or if the kitchen is very warm or if you have used lard and butter as your shortening.

Hauled along by a network of mag-beams converging from a score of space tugs came the Conference Disk, two hectometers in diameter and a decameter thick at its hub.

Sleeve was a cylindrical recess located at the axis of the southern part of the Spindle, into which a rotating extension of north Spindle projected through the Decoupler disk.