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    The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...
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    A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and...
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    A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk...
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    The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike...
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    The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's...
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    slot size was initially used by drives for 5.25-inch-diameter (133 mm) floppy disks in the IBM PC AT. (The original "5.25-inch slot" in the IBM PC was with...
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    86-DOS (redirect from 86-DOS disk format)
    two years earlier it had been slow to adapt CP/M for new floppy disk formats and hard disk drives. In April 1980, SCP assigned 24-year-old Tim Paterson...
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    It consists of a 2-inch magnetic floppy disk used to store still frames of composite analog video. A video floppy could store up to 25 frames either...
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  • store raw disk images of floppy disks, hard drives, and optical discs or a bitmap image – .img. The .img filename extension is used by disk image files...
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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
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    IBM PC DOS (category Floppy disk-based operating systems)
    subdirectories and hard disk support for the new IBM XT, which debuted in March 1983. A new 9-sector format bumped the capacity of floppy disks to 360 KB. The...
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  • using the C64 as a server to the host for accessing floppy disks or using the host as a hard disk server for the C64. Over5 was developed in ????-2002...
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  • Intel 8080-based NCR 7200, 7520, or 7530 data-entry terminal with 8-inch floppy disks in 1977/1978. Microsoft offered a BASIC compiler for BASIC-80 under CP/M...
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  • developed in 1977 for use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on hard disks and other devices. The increase in disk drive capacity over time drove...
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    double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. Early floppy disks only used one surface for recording. The term single-sided disk was...
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    for connecting external floppy disk drives. Atari also used this connector on their 16-bit computer range for attaching hard disk drives and the Atari laser...
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    loading from floppy disk or compact cassette. Fast loaders came about because of a discrepancy between the actual speed at which floppy drives could transfer...
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    boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to another sector and marked as bad. Infected disks usually have five...
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  • Look up disc or disk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Disc and disk are both variants of the English word for objects of a generally thin and cylindrical...
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    the CP/M operating system and uses floppy disk drives for mass storage. The microprocessor board is a licensed variant of the Big Board computer. Xerox...
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    £150 higher than the Commodore variant that had been sold for two years prior. It also came with a modified PC floppy disk drive that is incompatible with...
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    For example, a floppy disk that has been supermounted can be physically removed from the system. Under normal circumstances, the disk should have been...
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    series eventually supported over 1,500 software programs. When the Disk II floppy disk drive was released in 1978, a new operating system, Apple DOS, was...
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    sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks, along with the phrase "Legalise Marijuana". Later variants produced a range...
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    targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software...
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  • The Epyx Fast Load is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer. It was programmed...
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  • compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with...
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    Multi-Personal Computer initially came in three variants: the MPC 1600-1, featuring two 5.25-inch, double-density floppy disk drives (FDDs) manufactured by Tandon;...
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    Amiga 2000 (section Variants)
    additionally equipped with the IBM PC Compatible bridgeboard and 5.25" floppy disk drive (which was important for real-world interoperability at this time)...
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    leading manufacturer of floppy disks by the end of the 1970s, and it was soon renamed Verbatim. In 1982, it formed a floppy disk joint venture with Japanese...
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