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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A disk controller is a controller circuit that enables a CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides...
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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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only one floppy disk drive can be connected. Floppy disk controller Floppy drive power connector Mueller, Scott (2006-03-24). "Floppy Disk Drives, Past...
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Keller, from MOS Technology, is the interrupt controller, but also includes logic for audio playback, floppy disk drive control, serial port input/output and...
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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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The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...
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Western Digital FD1771 (redirect from Ajax (floppy disk controller))
The FD1771, sometimes WD1771, is a floppy disk controller chip, the first in a line of floppy disk controllers produced by Western Digital. It uses single...
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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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single-chip version of the floppy disk controller for the Apple II. It was also employed in Macintosh computers. When developing a floppy drive for the Apple...
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up floppy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Floppy usually refers to a floppy disk. Floppy may also refer to: Floppy-disk controller The Floppy Show...
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optional keyboard. The Acorn System 3 added a floppy disk controller card, floppy disk drive, and disk operating system ROM, replacing the cassette interface...
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(90 mm) drives require a compatible disk controller and ProDOS 8. Third party drives offer up to 1440 KB. Commodore floppy drives used a fixed rotation speed...
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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 the...
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which appears to be a standard floppy drive to the old equipment by interfacing directly to the floppy disk controller, while storing data in another...
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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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PL/65, and Forth development system. Available hardware included a floppy disk controller and a backplane for expansion. Rockwell advertised the $375 AIM-65...
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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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Applix 1616 (section Disk controller card)
disk controller card contains: A Zilog Z80 processor running at 8 MHz 32 kibibytes of ROM 64 kibibytes of static RAM a WD1772 floppy disk controller dual...
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interface controller in CPU. In 1990s PCs, the floppy disk controller is usually integrated in super I/O chip. In older PCs, the IDE controller is usually...
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communications controller chip Peripheral DMA controller Disk controller Floppy disk controller Disk array controller, also known as a RAID controller, a type...
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Commodore 1581 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
The Commodore 1581 is a 3½-inch double-sided double-density floppy disk drive that was released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1987, primarily...
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after Bill Gardei) CSG 4151: DMAgic DMA controller (designed by Paul Lassa) F011C: FDC (floppy disk controller, also designed by Bill Gardei) The C65 also...
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TRS-80 (section Floppy disk drives)
single-density floppy disk controller chip. The industry standard Shugart Associates SA-400 minifloppy disk drive was used. Four floppy drives can be daisy-chained...
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A-Jax (video game), a 1987 Konami arcade game Ajax (floppy disk controller), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE Ajax (programming), Asynchronous...
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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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Cromemco 4FDC (redirect from 4FDC Floppy Disk Controller)
The Cromemco 4FDC floppy-disk controller is designed to interface both 5.25- and 8.0-inch floppy disk drives to the S-100 computer bus used in Cromemco...
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Catweasel may refer to: Individual Computers Catweasel, a floppy disk controller Catweazle, a children's television series Catweazle (wrestler), an English...
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Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash...
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very expensive, and had a very unreliable floppy disk controller because it used the WD1771 floppy disk controller chip without an external "data separator"...
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