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    Floppy disk (redirect from Diskette)
    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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    developed a 4-inch floppy disk drive, the Model 341 and an associated diskette, the DemiDiskette. At about half the size of the original 8-inch floppy disk the...
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  • ignored under DR-DOS 7.02 and higher) Configures cache memory sizes. DISKETTE (PTS-DOS only) Specifies floppy disk compatibility mode. DISPLAY (PTS-DOS...
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    8-inch diskettes as well. Rare format appearing on some early PC/XT clones using quad-density disks. These variations are known as DMF diskettes, used...
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  • terminology. Historically, IBM used the terms "FixPaks" and "Corrective Service Diskette" to refer to these updates. Historically, software suppliers distributed...
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  • floppy diskette. A 3.5 inch 1.44MB mini-floppy diskette contains 80 tracks, 18 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector. A 3.5 inch 720k diskette contains...
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  • Boot disk (redirect from Boot diskette)
    A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer...
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    name Minnow). The disk is a read-only, 8-inch-diameter (200 mm) flexible diskette called the "memory disk" and holding 80 kilobytes of data. Initially the...
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  • threads and multi-user Data General Business Basic, is called Data General Diskette Operating System (DG-DOS or now—somewhat confusingly—simply DOS); another...
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    expensive to manufacture than reproducing a diskette, and had comparatively small capacity compared to diskettes. A few cartridges contained battery-backed...
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    FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems...
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  • The Caleb Technology UHD144 (Ultra High Density) is a floptical-based 144 MB floppy disk system introduced in early 1998, marketed as the it drive. Like...
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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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  • business and educational applications for the IBM PC on bootable floppy diskettes bundled with SpeedStart CP/M, a reduced version of CP/M-86 as a bootable...
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  • operating system under CP-67 or VM Minidisk (floppy), 5.25-inch floppy diskette type Minidisk (VM), a virtual disk provided by the CP-67 or VM operating...
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    Video Floppy (redirect from VF (diskette))
    A Video Floppy (bideo furoppi- (Japanese: ビデオフロッピー)) is an analog recording storage medium in the form of a 2-inch magnetic floppy disk used to store still...
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  • In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable...
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  • In computing, a service pack comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable...
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    A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device...
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    media standard for the 8-inch single sided floppy disk, IBM's "Type 1" diskette, which coupled with rapidly increasing requirements for inexpensive, removable...
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    (2011-08-12) [July 2009]. Johnson, Herbert R. (ed.). "Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes". Archived from the original on 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2017-06-19. (NB...
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  • of operating systems for copying the complete contents of a diskette to another diskette. The command is available in MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba...
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  • entry system that was announced by IBM in 1973. It recorded data on an 8" diskette, a new recording medium from IBM, for fast, flexible, efficient data entry...
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    Zenith MinisPort (redirect from LT diskette)
    of them. The disks were not compatible with two-inch "VF" video floppy diskettes. An external standard 3.5-inch 720 KB double-density floppy drive was...
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    MS-DOS prompts "Abort, Retry, Fail?" after being commanded to list a directory with no diskette in the drive using the dir command....
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    the H19/Z-19, based on the same enclosure (with a blank cover over the diskette drive cut-out) and terminal controller. The company offered an upgrade...
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    dual 360 KB diskette versions. A single diskette unit with keyboard and 256 KB of main memory is priced at $2,270, while the dual diskette version is priced...
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    in the industry by abandoning legacy technologies like the 3+1⁄2-inch diskette, being an early adopter of the USB connector, and coming pre-installed...
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    Morris worm source code floppy diskette at the Computer History Museum...
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    editor DIS 1007 Diskette service package DIS 1010/1018 Floating point software packages DIS 1011 Basic interpreter DIS 1012 DDS diskette dataset support...
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