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    electronic musical instruments. ROM cartridges allow users to rapidly load and access programs and data alongside a floppy drive in a home computer; in a...
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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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    issued in January 1995, to make a CD emulate a hard disk or floppy disk. Pre-pressed CD-ROMs are mass-produced by a process of stamping where a glass master...
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    contains the first "Floppy ROM", a 331⁄3 RPM record containing about six minutes of Kansas City standard audio. The September 1978 Floppy ROM Number 5 has two...
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  • on-board video (if present) or the option ROM on a NuBus or PCI video card. Toolbox then checks for a disk in the floppy drive, and scans all SCSI buses for...
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    from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk. Most Amiga models were shipped with the Kickstart firmware stored on ROM chips. Commodore's AmigaOS was formed...
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    BIOS (redirect from BIOS ROM)
    configuration program on floppy disk, not in the ROM, to set the configuration options contained in this memory. The floppy disk was supplied with the...
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  • when all other boot devices (floppy drives, hard drives, etc.) had failed. By hooking INT 19H, the network adapter ROM would attempt to boot from the...
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  • Boot disk (redirect from Bootable floppy)
    systems. The use of boot floppies is in decline, due to the availability of other higher-capacity options, such as CD-ROMs or USB flash drives. A modern...
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  • producing the discs. The May 1977 issue of Interface Age contains the first "Floppy ROM", a 331⁄3 RPM record containing about six minutes of Kansas City standard...
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  • such as the dual "Bandit" bus controllers, the proprietary floppy format, and possibly the CD-ROM. UW-SCSI hard disks are seldom an issue and Apple even released...
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  • precision, with a range up to 1099, and by being published for free as a "Floppy ROM" magazine insert. An 8K version added string variables and trigonometry...
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  • Microsoft Windows. Nero Burning ROM supports reading IMG files for creating bootable CDs. mtools allows manipulation of MS-DOS floppy disk images in Unix systems...
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    organizing data on CD-ROMs into logical units such as files, which led to every CD-ROM maker creating its own format. In order to develop a CD-ROM file system standard...
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    one or two floppy drives, or a floppy drive and a hard drive. After-market brackets were designed to allow the SE to accommodate two floppy drives as well...
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    contains two 640 KB 5¼-inch 2DD (quad density) floppy drives, a JIS level 1 kanji (2,965 characters) font ROM, and was priced at 398,000 yen (about US$1,700...
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    Read-only memory (redirect from Mask ROM)
    Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified...
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    Commodore 1540 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
    Commodore DOS on board in ROM – contrary to almost all other home computer systems of the time, where the DOS was loaded from a boot floppy and was executed on...
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    voice acting. There are also many script differences between the floppy and CD-ROM versions. Many of the narrative descriptions were modified, and lines...
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    computer tape are known as tape images, while those derived from floppy disks and CD-ROMs (and other disk formats) are known as disk images. Images copied...
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    Flexi discs like this Interface Age "Floppy ROM" program sheet were occasionally included as inserts in computer hobbyist and video game magazines during...
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    address bits are left undecoded. Commodore 1541 floppy drive Commodore 1541C floppy drive Commodore 1541-II floppy drive Commodore 1530 Datasette Commodore MPS-802...
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    a compact and portable version of the Apple IIe. The IIc has a built-in floppy disk drive and a keyboard, and was often sold with its matching monitor...
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  • So you want to be a Hero? floppy disks Original Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon floppy disks Original Remington: Top Shot CD-Rom Original Safecracker box "New...
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    improved ROM code into RAM, thus reducing the RAM available for other uses. Apple offered an upgrade kit which replaced the floppy disk drive and ROMs, essentially...
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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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  • player. These disks were known under various trademarked names including "Floppy ROM", "Flexisoft", and "Discoflex". A few pop musicians included Sinclair...
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    floppy (Model code: LST-1141) Stacy 2: 2 MB RAM, 1× 3.5" internal floppy, 20 MB HD (Model code: LST-2144) Stacy 2: 2 MB RAM, 2× 3.5" internal floppy (Model...
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    original IBM PC had Cassette BASIC (ROM BASIC) and would start that if no operating system could be loaded from the floppy disk or hard disk. The boot firmware...
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    most platforms of the era. It was perhaps best known for its use of "Floppy ROM"s, very thin vinyl record, known as "sound sheets" containing programs...
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