Boot diskette

Okay kiddo, so imagine your computer is like a house and it needs directions to know what to do. A boot diskette is like a map that tells your computer how to turn on and what to do next.

It's a little square piece of plastic that you put into a special slot in your computer. When you turn your computer on, it looks for the boot diskette and follows the directions on it.

Sometimes, if your computer is having trouble starting up, you can use a different boot diskette to tell it how to start up differently. It's like having a different map to follow when you're on a road trip.

But nowadays, we don't really use boot diskettes anymore because computers usually have it all built in already. So it's kind of like an old treasure map that people don't really use anymore.