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Floptical

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Using a combination of magnetic and optical technology. not-comparable

    "1993 June 21, advertisement, InfoWorld, page 12, Floptical technology is a practical and affordable way to increase your storage capacity— without giving up the convenience of diskettes."

Noun
  1. 1
    A floptical disk.

    "Like floppy drives on steroids, flopticals use laser optics to store up to 21MB of data on one 3½-inch disk. The advantages of flopticals are a low buy-in cost ($400 and under) and the convenience of using the drive for your current library of 1.44MB and 720K disks (as well as IBM′s 2.88MB disks)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Blend of floppy (“floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device”) + optical.

Etymology 2

Blend of floppy (“floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device”) + optical.

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