Memory diskettes were components found in droids that served as the primary processing unit. These technological items shared similarities with both droid brains and verbobrains. It is known that the unhinged scientist Professor Cantebarius H. Broom would disable droids by taking out their memory diskettes.
The initial reference to memory diskettes appeared in Troublesome Outing, a Spanish story of uncertain canonicity that saw publication in 1986. Abel G. Peña, who created the first English translation of the story in 2013, commented that the term "diskette" felt like "a quaint anachronism." During the 1980s, the concept of high-capacity cloud storage and flash drives was beyond imagination. However, diskettes now seem incongruous within the advanced Star Wars setting.