double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. Early floppy disks only used one surface for recording. The term single-sided...
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Disks were available in both single and double sided forms, with double sided formats providing twice the storage capacity. Like TPI, "double sided"...
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that double sided disks were certified error-free on both sides of the media. Double-sided disks could be used in some drives for single-sided disks, as...
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3-inch media were double-sided in nature, single-sided drive owners were able to flip the disk over to use the other side. The sides were termed "A" and...
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Commodore 1571 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use double-sided, double-density (DS/DD)...
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Dave Goldberg and Robert J. Vanderbei Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not...
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proprietary double-sided 3-inch diskette format named "DataDisk". Confusingly, it was labelled 2.8-inch reflecting the diameter of the magnetic disk itself...
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some Kaypro computers that came with single-sided floppy disk drives could be upgraded to double-sided drives, and some that came with only one floppy...
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modify DOS XL for double-sided disk support. DOS XL was designed to replace OS/A+. Included support for single and double-density disk drives. Utilized...
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is used exclusively in ritual by Nepali shamans. The Dhyāngro is a double-sided disk-shaped drum topped with leather having a long wooden handle. Dhyāngro...
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memory; and a disk controller card, to interface with the minifloppy drives. Later, a Z80 based disk controller supported double sided, double-density minifloppy...
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Apple II (section The OS Disk)
the side of the disk using a "disk notcher" or hole puncher and inserting the disk flipped over. Double-sided disks, with notches on both sides, were...
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formats which allow the full disk to be read by double-sided drives but still lets single-sided drives access side A of the disk. Many magazine coverdisks...
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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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layered 2.6 GB versions, dual sided single layer 2.8 GB versions, and dual sided dual layer 5.2 GB versions. A double sided MiniDVD can hold 2.8 GB of data...
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version is 5.03 (1986). The Beta Disk Interface handles single- and double-sided, 40- or 80-track double-density floppy disks, and up to four drives. This...
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on December 28, 2004, with this release being the first to contain double-sided disks (which would continue through to the sixth season DVD release) and...
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Memory rank (redirect from Double-sided RAM)
called row) is the use of single-sided and double-sided modules, especially with SIMMs. While most often the number of sides used to carry RAM chips corresponded...
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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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Sony SMC-70 (section 3.5" disk drive)
was never offered with a double-sided disk drive, later releases of CP/M for the SMC-70 (e.g. 2.0) added support for double sided drives (e.g. OA-D32W),...
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Atari DOS (redirect from DISK OPERATING SYSTEM II VERSION 2.0S)
1450XLD. It was designed to operate with larger disk formats, adding double density and double sided support while also supporting the older single and...
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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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included single-sided Western Digital FD1793 floppy-disk controller. An upgrade kit from Future Systems to install 360 KB double-sided double-density drives...
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Cards used are double-sided, with a total capacity of 112 KB per disk. Many games span both sides of a disk and a few span multiple disks, requiring the...
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single-sided unit used in the TRS-80, then the newer double-sided TM100-2. Tandon would become the world's largest independent producer of disk drives...
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to the drive's on-disk format using one of a number of encoding schemes, like FM encoding (single density) or MFM encoding (double density), and reading...
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Commodore 8050 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
are double-sided drives. Double-sided drives can fully read and write to disks formatted by single-sided drives, but single-sided drives can only read and...
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new 800-kilobyte double-sided drive mechanism, which would not be released for the Macintosh until four months later. The Apple UniDisk 3.5 drive contained...
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(originally Tandon Magnetics) in the disk drive industry, creating what became the industry-standard double-sided floppy drive disk read-and-write heads. Tandon...
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Group coded recording (redirect from Hard disk GCR)
Micro Peripherals, Inc. (MPI) marketed double-density 5¼-inch disk drives (like the single-sided B51 and double-sided B52 drives) and a controller solution...
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