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  2. Dysan - Wikipedia

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    Dysan 3.5" floppy disk Dysan Corporation was an American storage media manufacturing corporation, formed in 1973 in San Jose, California , by CEO and former president C. Norman Dion. It was instrumental in the development of the 5.25" floppy disk , which appeared in 1976.

  3. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    Data erasure offers an alternative to physical destruction and degaussing for secure removal of all the disk data. Physical destruction and degaussing destroy the digital media, requiring disposal and contributing to electronic waste while negatively impacting the carbon footprint of individuals and companies. [10]

  4. Solid waste policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Solid Waste Tree, Based on Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid waste means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or an air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial ...

  5. Floppy disks obsolete, headed for the recycle bin

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    You can officially move your old computer floppy disks to your obsolete file, since Sony has announced plans to discontinue selling them in Japan in March 2011, according to The Consumerist. The ...

  6. Remember floppy disks? This supplier says business is booming

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    And if you built a plane 20 or 30 or even 40 years ago, you would use a floppy disk to get information in and out of some of the avionics of that airplane."Persky sells about 500 disks a daybut ...

  7. KryoFlux - Wikipedia

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    KryoFlux consists of a small hardware device, [4] [5] which is a software-programmable FDC system that runs on small ARM-based devices that connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB, and software for accessing the device. KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolution. [6]

  8. Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of ...

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    Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

  9. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia

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    Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Other short titles: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976: Long title: An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.