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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The list of Family Computer Disk System (Famicom Disk System) games has those officially licensed by Nintendo. Famicom Disk System games were released...
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Hacker International (redirect from Disk Hacker)
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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (redirect from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk)
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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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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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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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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Apple II (section The OS Disk)
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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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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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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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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Clustered file system (redirect from Shared disk file system)
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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Nebra sky disc (redirect from Nebra Sky Disk)
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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Compact disc (redirect from Compact disk)
storage and initially could hold much more data than a personal computer hard disk drive. Several other formats were further derived, both pre-pressed and blank...
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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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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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40- and 80-column modes, and was compatible with both the 1541 and 1571 disk drives. The program could handle documents up to 64Kb in size. It was a form...
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