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8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...
A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...
Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive Patents. IBM's decision in the late 1960s to use semiconductor memory as the writeable control store for future systems and control units created a requirement for an inexpensive and reliable read only device and associated medium to store and ship the control store's microprogram and at system power on to load the microprogram into the control store.
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Dari, or dhari, dancer's headdress featured on the Torres Strait Islander flag; DARI, dopamine reuptake inhibitor, a drug; Dari, a name for commercial sorghum; Dari (band), an Italian music group; Zoroastrian Dari language, an ethnolect of the Zoroastrians of Yazd and Kerman, Iran; Dari Mart, a chain of convenience stores in Oregon, U.S.
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school.
A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes.. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text.
An image of the Melissa computer virus created by Ukrainian artist Stepan Ryabchenko in 2011. Irrational Geometrics' digital art installation, 2008 by Pascal Dombis Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.