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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Floppy disk variants (redirect from 3" diskettes)
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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CONFIG.SYS (redirect from DISKETTE (CONFIG.SYS directive))
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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List of floppy disk formats (redirect from Diskette format)
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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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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Apple FileWare (section Diskette)
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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SuperDisk (redirect from Laser Servo Diskette)
LS-120 diskettes Internal 3.5″ SuperDisk drive External parallel port SuperDisk drive SuperDisk 120MB diskettes in packaging SuperDisk 120MB diskette disassembly...
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Caleb UHD144 (redirect from 144 MB it diskette)
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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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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Data General RDOS (redirect from Data General Diskette Operating System)
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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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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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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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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Self-booting disk (redirect from Self-booting diskette)
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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Patch (computing) (redirect from Corrective Service Diskette)
terminology. Historically, IBM used the terms "FixPaks" and "Corrective Service Diskette" to refer to these updates. Historically, software suppliers distributed...
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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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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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Data recovery (redirect from Rescue diskette)
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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Floppy-disk controller (redirect from Floppy diskette controller)
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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Service pack (redirect from Customer Service Diskette)
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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Floppy disk hardware emulator (redirect from Semi-virtual diskette)
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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Disk density (redirect from High-density (diskettes))
(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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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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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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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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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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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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systems through a floppy disk called the "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", which had been mailed to a mailing list. Harvard-taught evolutionary...
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Floppy disk drive interface (redirect from Floppy diskette interface)
and Faster Data Access". Computer Technology Review. p. 239. SA800/801 Diskette Storage Drive (PDF). OEM Manual. Sunnyvale, California, USA: Shugart. May...
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