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[4] [1] Eventually Tenser became the second character to reach the 13th (and at the time, the bottom level) of the Greyhawk dungeons, when he noticed that Robilar was missing and went in search of him. [citation needed] Gary Gygax "borrowed" Tenser's name for two spells, Tenser's floating disc [1] and Tenser's transformation.
His symbol is a disk with a curved line representing the horizon, and an upturned crescent above that. He is the brother of Celestian , and is said to make his home on Oerth . Fharlanghn was first detailed for the Dungeons & Dragons game in "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk" by Gary Gygax in Dragon #68 (December 1982). [ 8 ]
Gary Gygax included the name Tenser in the names of two spells, Tenser's floating disc and Tenser's transformation. Terik (or Teric) was a character created by Terry Kuntz. Terik often adventured with Tenser and Robilar in the days when the three controlled the first level of the dungeons of Greyhawk. [62]
The flying height or floating height or head gap is the distance between the disk read/write head on a hard disk drive and the platter. The first commercial hard-disk drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC (1956), used forced air to maintain a 0.002 inch (51 μm) between the head and disk.
5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 2 80 21 256 840 kB 300 MFM [NB 1] Amstrad CPC/PCW: 3 inch Double 1 40 9 512 180 kB 300 MFM Single head drive, but double-sided floppy discs (total of 360 kB per floppy) Amstrad PCW8512/9512: 3 inch Double 2 80 9 512 720 kB 300 MFM 720 kB mode uses both sides - ensure disc inserted correct way up. Apple II: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch ...
Euler's Disk, invented between 1987 and 1990 by Joseph Bendik, [1] is a trademarked scientific educational toy. [2] It is used to illustrate and study the dynamic system of a spinning and rolling disk on a flat or curved surface.
Commercial video games are typically developed as proprietary closed source software products, with the source code treated as a trade secret (unlike open-source video games). [1] When there is no more expected revenue, [ citation needed ] these games enter the end-of-life as a product with no support or availability for the game's users and ...
The VAX-11/782, code-named "Atlas", [9] is a dual-processor VAX-11/780 introduced in 1982. Both processors share the same MA780 multiport memory bus and the system operates asymmetrically, with the primary CPU performing all I/O operations and process scheduling with the second, attached processor only used for additional computationally-intensive work.