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Computer storage bus
generation of floppy disk drive (FDD) began with a variety of incompatible interfaces but soon evolved into one de facto standard interface for the generations
Floppy_disk_drive_interface
rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into
History_of_the_floppy_disk
Removable disk storage medium
dust from the spinning disk. Floppy disks store digital data, which can be read or written when inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or
Floppy_disk
Circuitry that controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive
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
Floppy_disk_controller
Data storage device
Common uses of USB flash drives are for storage, supplementary back-ups, and transferring of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller
USB_flash_drive
common generations of floppy disks (and drives), many other floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout
Floppy_disk_variants
Computer storage interface standard
hard drives and CD or DVD drives. The connection is used for computer storage such as hard disks, high-capacity floppy disk variants, optical disks, and
Parallel_ATA
General category of storage mechanisms
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
Disk_storage
The MSD Super Disk were a series of 5¼-inch floppy disk drives compatible to some degree with the Commodore 1541 disk drive, produced by Micro Systems
MSD_Super_Disk
External floppy disk drive by Apple
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 exclusively
Macintosh_External_Disk_Drive
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
Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
Electro-mechanical data storage device
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data
Hard_disk_drive
Floppy disk drive for the Apple II computer
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
Disk_II
invention of the floppy disk drive, various standardized form factors have been used in computing systems. Standardized form factors and interface allow a variety
List of disk drive form factors
List_of_disk_drive_form_factors
Process of preparing a data storage device for initial use
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
Disk_formatting
Family of standardized home computer architectures released between 1983 and 1992
(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
MSX
RAM used to emulate secondary storage
RAM drive is generally orders of magnitude faster than other forms of digital storage, such as SSD, tape, optical, hard disk, and floppy drives. This
RAM_drive
Floppy drive by Apple
FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems
Apple_FileWare
Floppy disk or optical disk drive made by Apple
SuperDrive is the product name for a floppy disk drive and later an optical disc drive made and marketed by Apple Inc. The name was initially used for
SuperDrive
Removable floppy disk storage system
standard 5¼-inch floppy disk. The Bernoulli Box II was initially released with just a 20 MB capacity, but was quickly followed up by drives with capacities
Bernoulli_Box
Controller for disk storage, usually integrated into the drive
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
Disk_controller
Storage medium from Imation
those used in traditional floppy disk drives. Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. The idea eventually
SuperDisk
Hard disk drive
disk drives introduced by Seagate in 1980 and 1981 respectively, that later became construed as hard disk drive interfaces: the ST-506 disk interface
ST-506/ST-412
Professional computer backup device
high-capacity floppy disks with 100 MB nominal capacity, and later 250 and then 750 MB, the company developed and released the Jaz drive. First shipping
Jaz_drive
First sector of partitioned PC computer disk
Torito specification may contain disk images mounted by the BIOS to occur as floppy or superfloppies on this interface. DL values of 0x00 and 0x01 may
Master_boot_record
1977 microcomputer by Tandy Corporation
can be expanded with up to 48 KB of RAM, and up to four floppy disk drives and/or hard disk drives. Tandy/Radio Shack provided full-service support including
TRS-80
Removable disk from which a computer can boot an operating system
data floppies could have a virus written to their first sector which silently infects the host computer if switched on with the disk in the drive. Bootable
Boot_disk
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 (FDD)
History of IBM magnetic disk drives
History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives
Standard-sized area for adding drives or other hardware to a computer
disk drives and floppy disk drives. This form factor is obsolete, a famous example being the Shugart SA1000 winchester drive. Later models of floppy drives
Drive_bay
Computer storage device with no moving parts
solid-state disk. Etymologically, "solid-state drive" partly refers to existing data storage devices like tape drives and hard disk drives, which all used
Solid-state_drive
BIOS interrupt call for disk access
interrupt handler at this vector that provides sector-based hard disk and floppy disk read and write services using cylinder-head-sector (CHS) addressing
INT_13H
Removable cartridge disk storage system
dissimilar technology. The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has some of the standard 3½-inch floppy disk drive's convenience, but with much greater
Zip_drive
Operating system focused on disk-based file operations
A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that requires a hard disk (HDD), floppy disk, solid-state drive (SSD), or other direct-access
Disk_operating_system
Z80-based single-board computer
memory, disk drive interface, keyboard and video monitor interface. The printed circuit board was sized to match the Shugart 801 or 851 floppy drive. This
Ferguson_Big_Board
First Macintosh hard drive developed by Apple
SCSI interface introduced on the Macintosh Plus in January 1986, would accommodate far faster and more efficient hard drives, rendering the Hard Disk 20
Hard_Disk_20
connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB, and software for accessing the device. KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very
KryoFlux
variety of compatible software. Many of the adapters interface with the original serial bus disk drive plug or the C2N tape. Others connect to either the
Commodore 64 disk and tape emulation
Commodore_64_disk_and_tape_emulation
Floppy disk drive
The XF551 is a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive produced by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. Introduced in 1987, it matches the gray design language
Atari_XF551
Personal computer by Apple Inc.
computer shipped with two “Twiggy” floppy disk drives along with Lisa OS and office productivity software. The interface included a detached keyboard, a
Apple_Lisa
Data storage device
the early days of home computing, floppy and hard disk drives were very expensive. Many computers had an interface to store data via an audio tape recorder
Tape_drive
1977–1993 series of microcomputers
25-inch floppy drive and 128 KB RAM, with a built-in disk controller that could control external drives, composite video (NTSC or PAL), serial interfaces for
Apple_II
Disk interface for ZX Spectrum computers
The Beta Disk Interface handles single- and double-sided, 40- or 80-track double-density floppy disks, and up to four drives. This interface was popular
Beta_Disk_Interface
Company
Its floppy disk drive interface was built into the motherboard. The IBM PC, in contrast, had only five expansion slots, with the video card and floppy disk
Columbia_Data_Products
Data storage device
combines a faster storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). The intent is adding some of the speed of SSDs
Hybrid_drive
Floppy disk drive
The Triton Quick Disk Drive is a product that allows 2.8-inch floppy disks to be read on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Mattel Aquarius and Dragon
Triton_Quick_Disk_Drive
File format representing a virtual hard disk drive
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
VHD_(file_format)
expensive floppy disk drives or even cassette tape drives as both secondary storage and transport media. However, by the late 1980s, hard disk drives were
History_of_hard_disk_drives
Disk compression utility
data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported. This feature was removed in Windows XP.
DriveSpace
Commodore floppy disk drive
floppy disk drive that was released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1987, primarily for its C64 and C128 home/personal computers. The drive stores
Commodore_1581
Circular disk on which magnetic data is stored in a hard disk drive
(as opposed to the flexible materials which are used to make floppy disks). Hard drives typically have several platters which are mounted on the same
Hard_disk_drive_platter
United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By contrast, in Europe, the C64 was often used with cassette tape drives (Datasette), which were
Commodore_64_peripherals
Type of floppy disk drive
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
Floptical
Logical or physical division of storage media
track, as was the case with early hard drives and most floppy disks, the sectors towards the outside of the disk are physically longer than those nearer
Disk_sector
Set of computer and peripheral connection standards
disk drive and were usually physically mounted to the drive's chassis. SASI, which was used in mini- and early microcomputers, defined the interface as
SCSI
Floppy disk drive
Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use
Commodore_1571
Israeli electronics company
flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. They also produced flash solid state drives for PATA, SATA, SCSI and SAS interfaces. After 17 years of
M-Systems
the Amiga computer. DMS creates a compressed image of an entire floppy disk. The disk is read block-by-block, and thus its data structure is maintained
Disk_Masher_System
Microcomputer released in 1982
disk controller with one or two internal 3.5" disk drives (the base system did not include a floppy disk controller or disk drives). The floppy disk controller
Sony_SMC-70
IBM PC compatible home computer system
peripheral interfaces, including game ports compatible with those on the TRS-80 Color Computer, an IBM-standard floppy-disk controller supporting two drives, and
Tandy_1000
Protocol that carries SCSI commands over Parallel ATA
ATA interface. ATAPI devices include CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, CompactFlash drives, and large-capacity floppy drives
ATAPI
First model of Apple's Macintosh computer line
single-sided 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk drive, with no option to add any further internal storage, like a hard drive or additional floppy disk drive. The system software
Macintosh_128K
Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped
Hard disk drive performance characteristics
Hard_disk_drive_performance_characteristics
Defunct computer technology company
faster than floppy disks. These disk drives were initially sold to software engineers inside Apple Computer.[citation needed] The disk drives were manufactured
Corvus_Systems
Microsoft computer operating system
number when formatting hard disks and floppy disks (Disk duplication also and when using SYS to make a floppy disk or a hard drive partition bootable); Release
MS-DOS
Firmware for hardware initialization and OS runtime services
first floppy disk drive or the first hard disk drive, even if there were two drives installed. On the original IBM PC and XT, if no bootable disk was found
BIOS
Computer file consisting of the contents of a storage device
frequently use disk images to emulate floppy disks that have been preserved. This is usually simpler to program than accessing a real floppy drive (particularly
Disk_image
are 5¼-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Commodore International, primarily for its 8-bit CBM and PET series of computers. The drives offered improved
Commodore_8050
Disk cloning and backup tool
available on floppy disks made disk cloning of several different disk controllers a difficult task, where different SCSI, USB, and CD-ROM drives were involved
Ghost_(disk_utility)
Historical method for giving addresses to physical data blocks on hard disk drives
method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head,
Cylinder-head-sector
Brazilian microcomputer company
(1987, faster CPU) SP 16 AT SP 286 AT SP 386 AT SP 486 CP 450 (floppy disk drive interface) Printer P 500 Printer P 600 Printer P 700 Printer P 720 Printer
Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores
Prológica_Indústria_e_Comércio_de_Microcomputadores
Computer released in 1984
unreliable hard disk drive, the high-density floppy disk drives turned out to be problematic. Some ATs came with one high-density (HD) disk drive and one double-density
IBM_Personal_Computer_AT
1995 Microsoft operating system version
Preview Program. For US$19.95/£19.95, users would receive several 3.5-inch floppy disks that would be used to install Windows 95 either as an upgrade from Windows
Windows_95
architecture (2021) had integrated the M.2 storage interface controller in CPU. In 1990s PCs, the floppy disk controller is usually integrated in super I/O
Storage_controller
Discontinued family of computer operating systems
system, equipped with a Shugart Associates 8-inch floppy-disk drive interfaced via a custom floppy-disk controller. It was written in Kildall's own PL/M
CP/M
Floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64
floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The best-known floppy
Commodore_1541
American data storage company
forward integration was the FD1771, one of the first single-chip floppy disk drive formatter/controllers, which could replace significant amounts of
Western_Digital
Shell command for copying and converting file data
interpreted as 2 × 80 × 18 × 512 = 1474560 bytes, the size of a 1440 KiB floppy disk. For implementations that do not support this feature, the POSIX shell
Dd_(Unix)
Family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles
and "B" for floppy drives. On systems with only one floppy drive DOS assigns both letters to the drive, prompting the user to swap disks as programs alternate
DOS
File format developed by Apple and used by macOS
compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with
Apple_Disk_Image
American computer peripheral manufacturer
that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5+1⁄4-inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In 1979 it was
Shugart_Associates
8-bit home computer introduced in 1982
and one integrated 1541 floppy disk drive. Even though Commodore claimed in advertisements that it would have dual 1541 drives, when the SX-64 was released
Commodore_64
Hard disk monitoring software
Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a computer hard disk drive-monitoring software for Windows, Linux and DOS operating systems. Hard Disk Sentinel was
Hard_Disk_Sentinel
Device or computer program used for writing and editing documents
used 51⁄4 inch floppy diskettes, which became the standard in the personal computer field. The program disk was inserted in one drive, and the system
Word_processor
Second model of Apple's Macintosh computer line
800 KB floppy disk drive as well as the Hard Disk 20, the first Macintosh hard disk from Apple, attaching to the floppy disk port. The Hard Disk 20 required
Macintosh_512K
Line of home computers from Atari Corporation
double-sided floppy disk drive, but without RF modulator 1040STFM a 520STFM with 1 MB of RAM and a built-in double-sided floppy disk drive with RF modulator
Atari_ST
Computer operating system
double-density 720 KB floppy disk drives, supporting the IBM PC Convertible, IBM's first computer to use 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disks, released April 1986,
IBM_PC_DOS
Home computers produced by Amstrad
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
Amstrad_CPC
Specialized casing
A disk enclosure or desktop hard drive is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid-state drives while providing a mechanism
Disk_enclosure
Type of computer disk storage drive
disc and to record discs for archival and data exchange purposes. Floppy disk drives, with capacity of 1.44 MB, have been made obsolete: optical media
Optical_disc_drive
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
Individual Computers Catweasel
Individual_Computers_Catweasel
Series of PCs by NEC, sold primarily in Japan
file. It used the entire space of an 1.2 MB floppy disk. In 1980s, most machines only had two floppy drives because HDDs were an expensive additional feature
PC-98
Class of microcomputers
Stringy Floppy, a continuous-loop tape drive which was much faster than a data cassette drive and could perform much like a floppy disk drive. It was
Home_computer
Technology for maintenance of file systems
on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over
Defragmentation
Personal computer model released in 1983
hard drive was included on most sub-models, with a disk controller featuring Xebec ICs PC DOS 2.0 was included The 5-pin DIN for the cassette interface was
IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
American data storage company
released in 1980. It was the first hard disk to fit the 5.25-inch form factor of the Shugart mini-floppy drive. It used a Modified Frequency Modulation
Seagate_Technology
1985 Microsoft operating system version
1983 in November 1983. Initially requiring 192 KB of RAM and two floppy disk drives, Microsoft described the software as a device driver for MS-DOS 2
Windows_1.0
Computer operating system
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 to
86-DOS
Workstation computer by NeXT
Computer, with a 25 MHz 68040 processor, a hard disk in place of the magneto-optical drive, and a floppy disk drive. NeXT offered a 68040 system board upgrade
NeXTcube
1985–1998 series of personal computers
1995). In all models, the monitor's casing contains the CPU, RAM, floppy disk drives, and power supply for all of the systems' components. All models except
Amstrad_PCW
Single-chip version of the floppy disk controller for the Apple II
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 II
Integrated_Woz_Machine
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
Boy/Male
Australian, Egyptian
Sun Disk
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic FlaithrÃ, FLORRY means "prince-king." Compare with feminine Florry.
Male
German
 Short form of German Diederick, DIRK means "first of the people; king of nations."
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : unexplained. The name has been recorded in Glastonbury, Somerset, since 1705.Perhaps a variant of Czech LiÅ¡ka, (see Liska), Slovak LÃÅ¡ka, or German Liske.
Girl/Female
Norse
Spirited.
Girl/Female
Norse Greek
Spirited.
Girl/Female
French Latin
From the shore.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fleury.German variant of the Huguenot name Fleury (see Flory).
Boy/Male
Swedish English
Fisherman.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Jamaican, Latin
Poppy; Flower Name; From the Flower
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Diss in Suffolk, which gets its name from a Norman pronunciation of Middle English diche, Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Dyke).German : habitational name from Dissen near the Teutoburg forest.
Female
English
English name derived from the flower name, from Latin papaver, which may be a reduplication of the base *pap-, POPPY means "to swell."Â
Male
Egyptian
, disk.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a fish in some way, from Old Norse fiskr ‘fish’ (cognate with Old English fisc).
Boy/Male
Teutonic American English German Shakespearean
Rules the people.
Boy/Male
German Teutonic American Dutch English
Dagger.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a driver of horses or oxen attached to a cart or plow, or of loose cattle, from a Middle English agent derivative of Old English drīfan ‘to drive’.
Male
Egyptian
, the most lovely Disk.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Florrie, FLORRY means "blossoming." Compare with masculine Florry.
Male
English
 Short form of English Richard, DICK means "powerful ruler." Compare with another form of Dick.
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Soldier of Guru
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Parsley.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Love
Female
Japanese
(1-篤å, 2-温å) Japanese name ATSUKO means 1) "kind child" or 2) "warm child."Â
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Overlord of Heaven
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Friend
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Success
Boy/Male
Tamil
Name of Lord Krishna, Lord venkateswara, Lord Vishnu, He who has beautiful locks of hair, Slayer of Keshi demon
Boy/Male
Latin
Beyond praise.
Biblical
peril; misfortune
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
FLOPPY DISK-DRIVE-INTERFACE
n.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
imp.
of Drive.
imp.
of Drive
n.
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
v. t.
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
p. p.
of Drive
n.
A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
n.
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
n.
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
p. p.
of Drive. Also adj.
v. i.
To grow dusk.
v. t.
To stab with a dirk.
v. t.
To make dusk.
n.
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
n.
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
n.
The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
n.
The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
p. p.
Driven.