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    The Family Computer Disk System, commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System, or just Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home...
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  • disk image files. Authoring software for CDs/DVDs such as Nero Burning ROM can generate and load disk images for optical media. A virtual disk writer...
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    Family Computer Disk System (Famicom Disk System) has a library of 200 games that have been officially licensed by Nintendo. Famicom Disk System games were...
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    Euler's Disk, invented between 1987 and 1990 by Joseph Bendik, is a trademarked scientific educational toy. It is used to illustrate and study the dynamic...
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    of the Disk Writer kiosks, and retailers complained of their use of valuable space as demand for the format waned.: 78  Usage of a floppy disk-based medium...
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    within the disk, lighting first one side then the other. In 1974, the science fiction writer Larry Niven suggested that an Alderson disk "would be a...
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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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  • Nintendo's authorised Disk Writer units, which were placed only in game stores and charged 500 yen to copy a selected game to a customer's disk). Several versions...
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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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    engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented the hard disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed...
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  • "The Disk" is a 1975 short story written by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It appears in the collection The Book of Sand. The story deals with a...
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    M-DISC (redirect from M-Disk)
    thicker[by how much?] and almost transparent with later DVD and BD-R M-Disks having standard and inkjet printable labels. The patents protecting the...
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  • Nintendo's Japan-only Disk Writer kiosks allowed users to copy from a jukebox style of rotating stock of the latest games to their floppy disks. They can keep...
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    Honey Bee Family Computer Disk System A unit that read non standard disks with content downloaded from Nintendo Disk Writer vending machines at stores...
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  • Mask, was released on September 13, 2023, and the second part, The Indigo Disk, was released on December 14, 2023. An epilogue, Mochi Mayhem, was released...
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  • Pac-Man (category Famicom Disk System games)
    Famicom version was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1990 as a budget title for the Disk Writer kiosks in retail stores. The same year, Namco...
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  • Servowriter (category Hard disk drives)
    A servowriter or disk writer is a complex machine used in the manufacturing of a hard disk drive. It can write servo tracks (a circular string of sector...
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    Zip drive (redirect from Zip disk)
    internal and external CD writers known as Zip-650 or Zip-CD, despite the dissimilar technology. The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of...
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    on self-booting disks and does not use standard DOS disk formats. This discouraged the copying or modifying of the software on the disks, and improved loading...
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  • Mario Bros. (category Famicom Disk System games)
    released only in Japan on Novemeber 30, 1988, for the Famicom Disk System through the Disk Writer service. In Taiwan and Mainland China, the game is sometimes...
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    Disk System, a floppy disk drive peripheral with expanded RAM which allowed players to use re-writable disk media called "disk cards" at Disk Writer kiosks...
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    Phaistos Disc (redirect from Phaistos Disk)
    symbols instead of Phaistos Disc glyphs. The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle...
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    At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions...
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  • Universal Disk Format (UDF) is an open, vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most...
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  • or performance. A shared-disk file system uses a storage area network (SAN) to allow multiple computers to gain direct disk access at the block level...
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  • Kanki Punch Out!! Composition Kenji Yamamoto and Yukio Kaneoka Famicom Disk Writer Composition 1988 Kaette Kita Mario Bros. Composition 1991 NES Open Tournament...
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    agefotostock. Rappenglück, Michael (2016). "Cosmovisions Put Upon a Disk: Another View of the Nebra Disk". In Silva, Fabio; Malville, Kim; Lomsdalen, Tore; Ventura...
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    Rupture disc (redirect from Burst disk)
    Dafydd Williams Jeffrey Williams Sunita Williams Reid Wiseman Kimiya Yui Writers and journalists Michael C. Barnette Victor Berge Philippe Diolé Gary Gentile...
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  • Famicom Detective Club (category Famicom Disk System games)
    game duology developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. The first entry, The Missing Heir, was released in 1988, followed...
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    floppy-disk drive, will sell for $3,995, according to a source close to IBM. Model 99, with a 1.2-megabyte floppy-disk drive and a 20-megabyte hard disk, will...
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