• Floppy disk format and density refer to the physical and logical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    It consists of a 2-inch magnetic floppy disk used to store still frames of composite analog video. A video floppy could store up to 25 frames either...
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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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  • protected floppy disks. Disk image creation is called disk imaging and is often time consuming, even with a fast computer, because the entire disk must be...
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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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    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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    86-DOS (redirect from 86-DOS disk format)
    two years earlier it had been slow to adapt CP/M for new floppy disk formats and hard disk drives. In April 1980, SCP assigned 24-year-old Tim Paterson...
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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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    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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    proprietary floppy disks called "Disk Cards" for more affordable data storage and adds a high-fidelity sound channel to enhance audio in compatible Disk System...
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  • Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of floppy disks. It has been around almost as long as the...
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    the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical disc media. (The spelling disk and...
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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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    Commodore 8050 (category CBM floppy disk drives)
    such as formatting a disk without further involvement from the connected computer. All three models utilize 5¼-inch double-density floppy disks with a...
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    innovations, such as the 16550 UART (serial port), 1440 KB 3.5-inch floppy disk format, 72-pin SIMMs, PS/2 port, and VGA video standard, went on to become...
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  • VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...
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    Zip drive (redirect from Zip disk)
    The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity...
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  • scanner) Micro Floppy Disk, the 3½-inch floppy disk format; See History of the floppy disk Mini Floppy Disk, the 5¼-inch floppy disk format; See History...
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    type of floppy disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to standard 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disks. The name...
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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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  • file format is used by several tools: RaWrite and WinImage use the raw image format to read and write floppy disk images ImDisk and Virtual Floppy Drive...
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    a method of storing data that saw widespread use in early floppy disk drives and hard disk drives. The data is modified using differential Manchester...
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