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... 60 KB (7,000 words) - 22:52, 25 April 2024 |
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... 33 KB (3,324 words) - 16:08, 3 March 2024 |
Each generation of floppy disk drive (FDD) began with a variety of incompatible interfaces but soon evolved into one de facto standard interface for the... 17 KB (1,168 words) - 04:08, 8 March 2024 |
Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many... 9 KB (1,291 words) - 15:05, 7 January 2023 |
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... 33 KB (1,296 words) - 13:23, 2 March 2024 |
VHD (file format) (redirect from Virtual Floppy Disk (file type)) virtual machines do not emulate a floppy controller and do not support floppy disk images. VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk v2) is the successor format to VHD... 18 KB (1,928 words) - 22:00, 14 February 2024 |
USB flash drive (redirect from Disk on key) supplementary back-ups, and transferring of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller, faster, have significantly more capacity, and... 85 KB (9,396 words) - 16:42, 23 April 2024 |
Bootable floppy disks ("boot floppies") for PCs usually contain DOS or miniature versions of Linux. The most commonly available floppy disk can hold only... 7 KB (904 words) - 07:00, 1 January 2024 |
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (section Floppy disk) the IBM floppy disk patent. Since the paper was 'floppy' material, he claims he had invented the floppy disk (sometimes he uses the phrase "floppy media");... 22 KB (1,945 words) - 03:21, 2 March 2024 |
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... 71 KB (9,377 words) - 04:16, 9 April 2024 |
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... 38 KB (4,775 words) - 21:16, 3 February 2024 |
proprietary floppy disks called "Disk Cards" for cheaper data storage and it adds a new high-fidelity sound channel for supporting Disk System games... 25 KB (2,821 words) - 22:00, 24 April 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,736 words) - 21:32, 14 March 2024 |
Removable media (redirect from Removable disk) inserted and removed from a system. Most early removable media, such as floppy disks and optical discs, require a dedicated read/write device (i.e. a drive)... 16 KB (1,473 words) - 15:09, 10 November 2023 |
Amstrad CPC (section Floppy disk drive) integrated storage device, either a compact cassette deck or 3-inch floppy disk drive. The main units were only sold bundled with either a colour, green-screen... 43 KB (5,266 words) - 15:17, 6 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,562 words) - 04:10, 30 December 2023 |
A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device... 7 KB (709 words) - 09:21, 2 November 2023 |
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... 20 KB (2,187 words) - 13:06, 25 April 2024 |
Disk density is a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks. Each designation describes a set of characteristics that can affect the... 12 KB (837 words) - 20:37, 7 December 2023 |
Macintosh with an internal drive bay for a hard disk (originally 20 MB or 40 MB) or a second floppy disk drive. First compact Macintosh that featured an... 13 KB (1,359 words) - 23:06, 9 April 2024 |
SmartMedia (redirect from Solid State Floppy Disk Card) 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... 12 KB (1,529 words) - 16:51, 2 December 2023 |
his blank floppy disk into the Apple Macintosh LC, a video pops up on the computer. This video is of a rapper named MC Double Def DP, the "Disk Protector"... 11 KB (1,221 words) - 04:18, 12 April 2024 |
MSX (section Floppy disk drives) (the floppy disk drive interface), connected to an external case with the drive. In South America, many of these systems used a 5.25 in (133 mm) floppy disk... 48 KB (4,636 words) - 05:04, 21 March 2024 |