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2. Target Disk Mode - Wikipedia

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   Target Disk Mode (sometimes referred to as TDM or Target Mode) is a boot mode unique to Macintosh computers. When a Mac that supports Target Disk Mode [1] is started with the 'T' key held down, its operating system does not boot. Instead, the Mac's firmware enables its drives to behave as a SCSI, FireWire, Thunderbolt, or USB-C external mass ...

3. Macintosh startup - Wikipedia

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   A Happy Mac is the normal bootup (startup) icon of an Apple Macintosh computer running older versions of the Mac operating system. It was designed by Susan Kare in the 1980s, drawing inspiration from the design of the Compact Macintosh series and from the Batman character Two-Face . [ 10 ]

4. Hard Disk 20 - Wikipedia

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   In fact, even for the Macintosh 512K to use the drive, it requires an additional file in the System Folder on a special startup disk which adds additional code into memory during startup. A startup routine also allows the Mac to check for the presence of a System file on the Hard Disk, switch over to it and eject the startup disk.

5. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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   This program may itself be a small program designed to load a larger and more capable program, i.e., the full operating system. To enable booting without the requirement either for a mass storage device or to write to the boot medium, it is usual for the boot program to use some system RAM as a RAM disk for temporary file storage.

6. Mac (computer) - Wikipedia

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   The current product lineup includes the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are sold with Apple's proprietary macOS operating system , which is not licensed to other manufacturers and exclusively bundled with Mac computers.

7. Apple Partition Map - Wikipedia

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   The Apple Partition Map maps out all space used (including the map) and unused (free space) on disk, unlike the minimal x86 master boot record that only accounts for used non-map partitions. This means that every block on the disk (with the exception of the first block, Block 0 ) belongs to a partition.

8. Macintosh External Disk Drive - Wikipedia

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   The Macintosh can only support one external drive, limiting the number of floppy disks mounted at once to two, but both Apple and third party manufacturers developed external hard drives that connected to the Mac's floppy disk port, which had pass-through ports to accommodate daisy-chaining the external disk drive. Apple's Hard Disk 20 can ...

9. Disk Utility - Wikipedia

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   Secure deletion of free space or disk using a "zero out" data, a 7-pass DOD 5220-22 M standard, or a 35-pass Gutmann algorithm; Adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Map, GUID Partition Table, and master boot record (MBR) Restoring volumes from Apple Software Restore (ASR) images; Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of a hard disk