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The original disk cartridges came in capacities of 5, 10, and 20 MB; they are 8.23 x 11.02 x 0.71 inches, [1] about the size of a standard piece of letter paper but thicker. The most popular system was the Bernoulli Box II, whose disk cases are 13.6 cm wide, 14 cm long and 0.9 cm thick, somewhat resembling a 5¼-inch standard floppy disk .
A 'universal' cable would have four drive connectors, two for each size of FDD, although cables which have only two drive connectors are common. The cable is normally a ribbon cable. For IBM-compatible floppy controllers, a twist in the cable reverses the order of conductors 10 through 16 for the second connector.
TI-99/2, [45] a 4K RAM, 32K ROM computer with no color, sound, or joystick port and a Mylar keyboard. TI designed the computer in four and a half months to sell for under $100 and compete with the Sinclair ZX81 and Timex Sinclair 1000. Based on the TMS9995 CPU running at 10.7 MHz and with a built-in RF modulator, performance greatly increased ...
The flash writer at a Nintendo Power kiosk for adding games to flash cartridges. When this was on the market in the 1990s, the user would first purchase the RAM cartridge, then bring it to a store featuring a Nintendo Power kiosk. [7] The user selects games to be copied to the cartridge and the store provides a printed copy of the manual.
The phrase cartridge tape is also ambiguous with 36 different types of audio, [4] video [5] or data [6] cartridges listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media. From time to time the terms tape cartridge and tape cassette are used to describe the same product.
Many game consoles use interchangeable ROM cartridges, allowing for one system to play multiple games. Shown here is the inside of a Pokémon Silver Game Boy cartridge. The ROM is the IC on the right labeled "MX23C1603-12A". Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
A crossover cable may also be used to connect two hubs or two switches on their upstream ports. Because the only difference between the T568A and T568B pin and pair assignments are that pairs 2 and 3 are swapped, a crossover cable may be envisioned as a cable with one modular connector following T568A and the other T568B (see TIA/EIA-568 wiring ...
PC Power and Cooling, Inc., was founded by Doug Dodson in April 1985. An electronic hobbyist since childhood, Dodson worked in the financial sector as an adult in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983, his workplace issued him a IBM PC XT —the power supply of which he deemed intolerably noisy due to its small cooling fan.