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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.^[1]

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Acorn Archimedes

Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England.

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Acorn Computers

Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.

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The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at a price more competitive with that of the ZX Spectrum.

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Advanced Disc Filing System

The Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is a computing file system unique to the Acorn computer range and RISC OS-based successors.

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. Floppy disk variants and Amiga are American inventions.

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Amiga 1200

The Amiga 1200, or A1200 (code-named "Channel Z"), is a personal computer in the Amiga computer family released by Commodore International, aimed at the home computer market.

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Amiga 3000

The Amiga 3000, or A3000, is a personal computer released by Commodore in June 1990.

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Amiga 4000

The Amiga 4000, or A4000, from Commodore is the successor of the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 3000 computers.

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Amiga Disk File

Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of floppy disks.

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Amiga Original Chip Set

The Original Chip Set (OCS) is a chipset used in the earliest Commodore Amiga computers and defined the Amiga's graphics and sound capabilities.

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AmigaOS

AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers.

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Amstrad

Amstrad was a British consumer electronics company, founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar.

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Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

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Amstrad PCW

The Amstrad PCW series is a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998, and also sold under licence in Europe as the "Joyce" by the German electronics company Schneider in the early years of the series' life.

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Atari ST

Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.

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Backward compatibility

In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.

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BASIC

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. Floppy disk variants and BASIC are American inventions.

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BBC Master

The BBC Master is a home computer released by Acorn Computers in early 1986.

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BBC Micro

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC.

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Bernoulli Box

The Bernoulli Box (or simply Bernoulli, named after Bernoulli's principle) is a high-capacity (for the time) removable floppy disk storage system that is Iomega's first widely known product.

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BIOS

In computing, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup).

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. Floppy disk variants and Blu-ray are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Byte (magazine)

Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.

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Caleb UHD144

The Caleb Technology UHD144 (Ultra High Density) is a floptical-based 144 MB floppy disk system introduced in early 1998, marketed as the it drive.

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Canon Inc.

Canon Inc. (Hepburn) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

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Click of death

Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically. Floppy disk variants and click of death are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Commodore 128

The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, or C.

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Commodore 1540

The Commodore 1540 (also known as the VIC-1540) is the companion floppy disk drive for the VIC-20 home computer.

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Commodore 1541

The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer.

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Commodore 1570

The Commodore 1570 is a 5¼" floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128 home/personal computer.

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Commodore 1571

The Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985.

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Commodore 1581

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 for its C64 and C128 home/personal computers.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). Floppy disk variants and Commodore 64 are American inventions.

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Commodore DOS

Commodore DOS, also known as CBM DOS, is the disk operating system used with Commodore's 8-bit computers.

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Commodore International

Commodore International Corporation (other names include Commodore International Limited) was a Bahamian home computer and electronics manufacturer with executive offices in the United States founded by Jack Tramiel and Irving Gould. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), was a significant participant in the development of the home computer industry in the 1970s to early 1990s.

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Commodore PET

The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. Floppy disk variants and compact disc are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to the 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.

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Composite video

Composite video is an baseband analog video format that typically carries a 415, 525 or 625 line interlaced black and white or color signal, on a single channel, unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) and the even higher-quality component video (three or more channels).

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Compute!

Compute!, often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994.

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Computer case

A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the hardware of a personal computer.

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Computer graphics

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.

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Coprocessor

A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU).

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CP/M

CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.

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CrossDOS

CrossDOS is a file system handler for accessing FAT formatted media on Amiga computers.

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Dd (Unix)

dd is a command-line utility for Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems and beyond, the primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files.

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Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer.

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Device driver

In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.

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Disc Filing System

The Disc Filing System (DFS) is a computer file system developed by Acorn Computers, initially as an add-on to the Eurocard-based Acorn System 2.

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Disk density

Disk density is a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks. Floppy disk variants and disk density are floppy disk computer storage.

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Disk image

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device.

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Disk Masher System

The Disk Masher System (.dms) is an often used method on the Amiga, to create a compressed image of a disk (usually floppy).

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Disk operating system

A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive, or optical disc.

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Disk storage

Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk. Floppy disk variants and disk storage are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Don't Copy That Floppy

Don't Copy That Floppy was an anti-copyright infringement campaign run by the Software Publishers Association (SPA) beginning in 1992. Floppy disk variants and Don't Copy That Floppy are floppy disk computer storage.

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Double-sided disk

In computer science, a double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data. Floppy disk variants and double-sided disk are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Drive bay

A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer.

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Dysan

Dysan Corporation was an American storage media manufacturing corporation, formed in 1973 in San Jose, California, by CEO and former president C. Norman Dion.

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Famicom Disk System

The commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System, or just Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video game console, released only in Japan on February 21, 1986.

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Flash memory

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

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Floppy disk

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 of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. Floppy disk variants and floppy disk are American inventions, floppy disk computer storage, legacy hardware and rotating disc computer storage media.

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Floppy disk format

Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Floppy disk variants and floppy disk format are floppy disk computer storage.

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Floppy disk hardware emulator

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 that is plug compatible with the drive it replaces, similar to how solid-state drives replace mechanical hard disk drives. Floppy disk variants and floppy disk hardware emulator are floppy disk computer storage.

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Floppy disk variants

The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Floppy disk variants and floppy disk variants are American inventions, floppy disk computer storage, legacy hardware and rotating disc computer storage media.

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Floppy-disk controller

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). Floppy disk variants and floppy-disk controller are floppy disk computer storage.

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Floptical

Floptical refers to a type of floppy disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to standard -inch floppy disks. Floppy disk variants and Floptical are floppy disk computer storage.

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GEOS (8-bit operating system)

GEOS (Graphic Environment Operating System) is a discontinued operating system from Berkeley Softworks (later GeoWorks).

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GlassBridge Enterprises

GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc., formerly Imation Corporation, is an American holding company.

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Group coded recording

In computer science, group coded recording or group code recording (GCR) refers to several distinct but related encoding methods for representing data on magnetic media. Floppy disk variants and group coded recording are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. Floppy disk variants and hard disk drive are American inventions and rotating disc computer storage media.

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Head crash

A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media.

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History of the floppy disk

A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. Floppy disk variants and History of the floppy disk are floppy disk computer storage.

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Hitachi

() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Individual Computers Catweasel

The Catweasel is a family of enhanced floppy-disk controllers from German company Individual Computers.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Intel 8088

The Intel 8088 ("eighty-eighty-eight", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086.

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Interlaced video

Interlaced video (also known as interlaced scan) is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth.

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Iomega

Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC) was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products.

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Jack Tramiel

Jack Tramiel (born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.

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List of floppy disk formats

This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Floppy disk variants and list of floppy disk formats are floppy disk computer storage and legacy hardware.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Metric prefix

A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mitsumi Electric

is a Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronic components, founded in 1954.

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Modified frequency modulation

Modified frequency modulation (MFM) is a run-length limited (RLL) line code used to encode data on most floppy disks and some hard disk drives. Floppy disk variants and Modified frequency modulation are rotating disc computer storage media.

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MOS Technology 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two") William Mensch and the moderator both pronounce the 6502 microprocessor as "sixty-five-oh-two".

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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NTSC

NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.

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Optical disc

An optical disc is a flat, usuallyNon-circular optical discs exist for fashion purposes; see shaped compact disc.

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PAL

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television.

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Panasonic

is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

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PC Card

PC Card is a parallel peripheral interface for laptop computers and PDAs.

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PDP-11

The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series.

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Pocket computer

A pocket computer is a class of handheld computer characterized by very short displays (typically accommodating only one or a handful of lines of text) and calculator-style alphanumeric keypads.

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PocketZip

The PocketZip is a medium-capacity floppy disk storage system introduced by Iomega in 1999.

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Proprietary file format

A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, designed by the company or organization to be secret, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily accomplished only with particular software or hardware that the company itself has developed.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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RISC OS

RISC OS is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England.

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Risc PC

Risc PC was a range of personal computers launched in 1994 by Acorn and replaced the preceding Archimedes series.

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SCSI

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives.

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Seequa Chameleon

The Seequa Chameleon was an early 1980s luggable personal computer; it was capable of running both the DOS and CP/M operating systems.

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Sega

is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese electronics company.

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Sharp PC-1600

The Sharp PC-1600 was a pocket computer introduced by Sharp in 1986 as a successor to the PC-1500.

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Smith Corona

Smith Corona is an American manufacturer of thermal labels, direct thermal labels, and thermal ribbons used in warehouses for primarily barcode labels.

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Sneakernet

Sneakernet, also called sneaker net, is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sony HiFD

The Sony HiFD (High capacity Floppy Disk) was a high-capacity floppy disk system developed by Sony and Fujifilm and introduced in late 1998.

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Sony Mavica

Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera) is a discontinued brand of Sony cameras which use removable disks as the main recording medium.

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Still video camera

A still video camera (SVC) is a type of electronic camera that takes still images and stores them as single frames of video.

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Super I/O

Super I/O (sometimes Multi-IO) is a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s, originally as add-in cards, later embedded on the motherboards.

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SuperDisk

The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk.

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SyQuest Technology

SyQuest Technology, Inc. was an early entrant into the hard disk drive market for personal computers.

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Tape library

In computer storage, a tape library is a physical area that holds magnetic data tapes.

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Tatung Einstein

The Tatung Einstein is an eight-bit home/personal computer produced by Taiwanese corporation Tatung, designed in Bradford, England at Tatung's research laboratories and assembled in Bridgnorth and Telford, England.

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Timex FDD3000

The Timex FDD 3000 in 1982 was a nearly complete computer by Timex of Portugal.

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TRS-80

The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores.

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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics. Floppy disk variants and USB are American inventions.

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VIC-20

The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines.

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Xara

Xara is an international software company founded in 1981, with an HQ in Berlin and development office in Hemel Hempstead, UK.

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Zenith MinisPort

The Zenith MinisPort (styled as minisPORT) is a subnotebook based on an 80C88 CMOS CPU running at two software selectable speeds: 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz.

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Zilog Z80

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early computing.

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Zip drive

The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Floppy disk variants and Zip drive are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Zone bit recording

In computer storage, zone bit recording (ZBR) is a method used by disk drives to optimise the tracks for increased data capacity. Floppy disk variants and zone bit recording are rotating disc computer storage media.

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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research.

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16-bit computing

16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.

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32-bit computing

In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.

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3M

3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, healthcare, and consumer goods.

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8-bit computing

In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_variants

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Floppy disk computer storage

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