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  2. 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 ...

  3. Byte - Wikipedia

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    The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer [1] [2] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.

  4. List of Doom ports - Wikipedia

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    Doom for Mac was released on November 4, 1994. [citation needed] The Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom were ported by Lion Entertainment and released by GT Interactive using a Mac OS launcher application to run original PC WADs. The Mac version runs on System 7 through Mac OS 9 and requires a 68040 or PowerPC processor.

  5. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    0 sqlitedb sqlite db SQLite Database [5] 53 50 30 31: SP01: 0 bin Amazon Kindle Update Package [6] 49 57 41 44: IWAD: 0 wad internal WAD (main resource file of Doom) [7] 00 ␀ 0 PIC PIF SEA YTR IBM Storyboard bitmap file Windows Program Information File Mac Stuffit Self-Extracting Archive IRIS OCR data file 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...

  6. PowerBook 500 series - Wikipedia

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    The PowerBook 500 series (codenamed Blackbird, which it shared with the older Macintosh IIfx) is a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with the 540c model on May 16, 1994.

  7. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    0.415 bits (log 2 4/3) – amount of information needed to eliminate one option out of four. 0.6–1.3 bits – approximate information per letter of English text. [3] 2 0: bit: 10 0: bit 1 bit – 0 or 1, false or true, Low or High (a.k.a. unibit) 1.442695 bits (log 2 e) – approximate size of a nat (a unit of information based on natural ...

  8. Macintosh LC 500 series - Wikipedia

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    The all-in-one desktop case is similar to the then recently introduced Macintosh Color Classic, but the LC 500 series is considerably larger and heavier due to its larger screen and a bulging midsection to house the larger electronics, including a 14" CRT display, CD-ROM drive, and stereo speakers.

  9. 500 (ball game) - Wikipedia

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    All the catchers must wait until the ball touches the ground before they pick it up in order to receive the 100 points at stake. If a catcher's score goes over 500 (or in different variations of the game, 1,000), that person will revert to 0 and will become the thrower, and the thrower will in turn become a catcher. [4]