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    The Commodore 1540 (also known as the VIC-1540) is the companion floppy disk drive for the VIC-20 home computer. It was introduced in 1982. It uses single-sided...
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    single-side floppy data storage format similar to that used by the Commodore 1540 & Commodore 1541 drives, but with a slightly different data marker indicating...
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    single-sided 170-kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks. The 1541 directly followed the Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20). The disk drive uses group coded recording (GCR)...
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    The Commodore 4040 is the replacement for the previous models 2040 (U.S.) and 3040 (Europe). It's a dual-drive 5¼" floppy disk subsystem for Commodore Business...
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    Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It operated as the 2,000-room Commodore Hotel between 1919 and 1976, before hotel chain Hyatt and real estate...
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    The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. A single all-in-one case combines a MOS Technology...
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    computers: the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Plus/4, Commodore 16, and Commodore 65. The parallel IEEE-488 interface used on the Commodore PET (1977) computer...
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    VIC-20 (redirect from Commodore VIC 20)
    computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer,...
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    device, as it is the case with some external floppy disk drives, e.g., Commodore 1540 and USB floppy disk drives, the internal floppy disk drive and its interface...
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    Commodore DOS, also known as CBM DOS, is the disk operating system used with Commodore's 8-bit computers. Unlike most other DOSes, which are loaded from...
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    Fast loader (category Commodore 64 software)
    protocol, the Commodore 1540 and 1541 disk drives soon gained a reputation for extreme slowness. Only at the introduction of the Commodore 128 computer...
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  • 'Commodore 64 disk/tape emulation and data transfer' comprises hardware and software for Commodore 64 disk & tape emulation and for data transfer between...
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  • Maniac Mansion (category Commodore 64 games)
    based on the player's choice of characters. Initially released for the Commodore 64 and Apple II, Maniac Mansion was Lucasfilm Games' first self-published...
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    64 home computers, the same as the 1540 and 1541 drives used with the later two machines. The standard Commodore Group Coded Recording (GCR) scheme used...
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    refused to record it, she turned to her friend Milt Gabler, owner of the Commodore label. Holiday sang "Strange Fruit" for him a cappella, and moved him...
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    Diary of Robert E. Peary". The Historian. 48 (3): 341–358. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1986.tb00698.x. JSTOR 24447539. Bouton, Katherine (August 13, 1989)...
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    the Order of the British Empire 1917–1936 Succeeded by Queen Mary Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Auxiliary Air Force 1932–1936 Succeeded by King George...
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    Charles III (category Honorary air commodores)
    (1473–1488) James (1507–1508) Arthur (1509–1510) James (1512–1513) James (1540–1541) James (1566–1567) Henry Frederick (1594–1612) Charles (1612–1625) Charles...
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  • Town, Aubrey meets Admiral Bertie, who confirms Aubrey's elevation to Commodore and authorises him to hoist his broad pendant ('broad pennant' in some...
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  • Nelson, heir of the Admiral) carried on the name. Horatio Palavicino (c. 1540 – 1600), Italian-born financier and political agent in England Horatio Vere...
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    noted that "under ideal conditions, a Stringy Floppy can outperform a VIC-1540/1541 disk drive". Texas Instruments licensed the Stringy Floppy as the Waferdrive...
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  • 'SPY vs SPY'". The Journal of Popular Culture. 40 (1): 4–24. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00351.x. "History". spyvsspyhq.com. Spy vs. Spy Headquarters. Hall...
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  • Oakes (1992) – (The Truelove in the US) The Wine-Dark Sea (1993) The Commodore (1995) The Yellow Admiral (1996) The Hundred Days (1998) Blue at the Mizzen...
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    the Ancestral Puebloans, then Puebloans, then the Navajo and Apache. In 1540 Coronado searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola and camped some 60 miles...
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    Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020. "1540 Broadway". The Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Archived from the original on June...
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  • handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa shogunate. Matthew C. Perry (1853, United States) A Commodore of the U.S. Navy who landed...
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    origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. Development and technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War" Christopher Howe, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-35485-7...
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  • Art Criticism: Aesthetics and Popular Culture. 57 (2): 145. doi:10.1111/1540_6245.jaac57.2.0145. Bilstein 2001, p. 318. Dante, Joe, Spielberg, Steven...
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    Martial Law Administrator Admiral Ahsan, Governor of East Pakistan, and Air Commodore Zafar Masud, Air Officer Commanding of Dacca's only airbase, were the...
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    of. The SID emulation method is based on the sound processor from the Commodore 64 home computer (Elektron formerly offered a separate product known as...
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