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  2. Any key - Wikipedia

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    The pause command in DOS requests the user to "Press any key to continue." In computing, "Press any key to continue" (or a similar text) was a historically used prompt to the user when it was necessary to pause processing. The system would resume after the user pressed any keyboard button.

  3. Abort, Retry, Fail? - Wikipedia

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    In CP/M, attempting to read a floppy disk drive with the door open would hang until a disk was inserted and the disk drive door was closed (very early disk hardware did not send any kind of signal until a disk was spinning, and a timeout to detect the lack of signal required too much code on these tiny systems). Many users of CP/M became ...

  4. Xbox 360 technical problems - Wikipedia

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    Of the 171 failures, 60% were due to a general hardware failure (and thus fell under the 3 year extended warranty). And of the remaining 40% which were not covered by the extended warranty, 18% were disc read errors, 13% were video card failures, 13% were hard drive freezes, 10% were power issues and 7% were disc tray malfunctions.

  5. Reset (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Generally, a hard reset is initiated by pressing a dedicated reset button On some systems (e.g, the PlayStation 2 video game console), pressing and releasing the power button initiates a hard reset, and holding the button turns the system off.

  6. Press any key to continue - Wikipedia

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  7. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Read/write head from circa-1998 Fujitsu 3.5" hard disk (approx. 2.0 mm x 3.0 mm) Microphotograph of an older generation hard disk drive head and slider (1990s) Noises from an old hard drive while attempting to read data from bad sectors

  8. Crash (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An Abnormal end or ABEND is an abnormal termination of software, or a program crash.Errors or crashes on the Novell NetWare network operating system are usually called ABENDs.

  9. David Bradley (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    It provided two Reset buttons, which must be pressed simultaneously to achieve reboot. [5] In March 1980, the multiple-key reboot concept had been introduced for the Apple II by Videx in its VideoTerm display card add-on, requiring Control-Reset, rather than Reset alone, to reboot the machine. The innovation was noted and well received at the ...