| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | floppy disk | 软盘 (A reusable magnetic storage medium. The floppy disk used today is the rigid 3.5-inch microfloppy that holds 1.44 MB. It is called floppy because the first varieties were housed in bendable jackets) |
| comp., MS | floppy disk drive | 软盘驱动器 (A hardware device that reads data from and writes data to floppy disks) |
| comp., MS | virtual floppy disk | 虚拟软盘 (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |