Meanings
- not comparableWithout a platter.
They would cut into the great home loaf, lying platterless on the rough table[…]
1904, Alexander Innes Shand, Old-time travel, page 3401 more example
Alternative options for the conventional hard disk drive are external drives, drives mounted on adapter cards, and platterless drives with battery-operated RAM memories.
1990, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, IBM microcomputers: a programmer's handbook, page 362
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