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    This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware...
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    systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout...
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    carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for...
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    A floppy-disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It...
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    Disk density is a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks. Each designation describes a set of characteristics that can affect...
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  • list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name...
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  • imaging can be time consuming. Disk images can be made in a variety of formats depending on the purpose. Virtual disk images (such as VHD and VMDK) are...
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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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    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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  • magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive...
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    Commodore 8050 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
    SFD-1001 are 5¼-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Commodore International, primarily for its 8-bit CBM and PET series of computers. The drives...
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  • Bootable floppy disks ("boot floppies") for PCs usually contain DOS or miniature versions of Linux. The most commonly available floppy disk can hold only...
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  • file formats and often other extensions are used for a raw disk image file. The .img file extension was originally used for floppy disk raw disk images...
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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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  • A self-booting disk is a floppy disk for home computers or personal computers that loads—or boots—directly into a standalone application when the system...
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    floppy disk. Indeed, the format was originally named Solid State Floppy Disk Card (SSFDC), and the physical design resembles a miniature 3.5" floppy disk...
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  • The IBM eXtended Density Format (XDF) is a way of superformatting standard high-density 3½-inch and 5¼-inch floppy disks to larger-than-standard capacities...
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  • allows the formatting of high-capacity floppy disks HDCopy, a DOS program that can read and write floppy disk and disk images in multiple formats, including...
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  • pharmaceutical from Rib-X Pharmaceuticals DEC RX02, 8"-floppy system, see List of floppy disk formats RX2, FIA rallycross racing category This disambiguation...
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  • An Apple Disk Image can be structured according to one of several proprietary disk image formats, including the Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF) from...
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  • RAM drive (redirect from RAM floppy)
    performance of a RAM drive is generally orders of magnitude faster than other forms of digital storage, such as SSD, tape, optical, hard disk, and floppy drives...
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    The Macintosh External Disk Drive is the original model in a series of external 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk drives manufactured and sold by Apple Computer...
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    86-DOS (redirect from 86-DOS disk formats)
    SCP-500 Disk Master Floppy controller. It added support for 5.25 in DD/1S (180 KB) and DD/2S (360 KB) FAT12 formats and supported the older formats as well...
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  • on-disc just as a general-purpose filesystem would on removable media like floppy disks and flash drives. This is also possible on write-once media, such as...
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  • Since the invention of the floppy disk drive, various standardized form factors have been used in computing systems. Standardized form factors and interface...
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    Bernoulli Box (category Floppy disk drives)
    standard floppy disk. The Bernoulli Box II was initially released with just a 20 MB capacity, but was quickly followed up by drives with capacities of 44 MB...
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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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    Commodore 1581 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
    MS-DOS and other formats of disks in the C1581 (using Big Blue Reader), provided that the PC or other floppy handles the "720 kB" size format. This capability...
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  • application can write the contents of a disk image file onto a physical media (such as an optical disc, a floppy disk, a hard disk drive or a USB flash drive)...
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    Individual Computers Catweasel (category Floppy disk drives)
    such as PCs, to access a wide variety of older or non-native disk formats using standard floppy drives. The floppy controller chip used in IBM PCs and compatibles...
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