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  2. Tenser - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Greyhawk - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of Greyhawk deities - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Alderson disk - Wikipedia

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    A schematic illustration of an Alderson disk. An Alderson disk [1] [2] (named after Dan Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant platter with a thickness of several thousand miles. The Sun rests in the

  7. List of commercial video games with later released source ...

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    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 ...

  8. Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    In the Old Testament period, the Earth was most commonly thought of as a flat disc floating on water. [21] The concept was apparently quite similar to that depicted in a Babylonian world-map from about 600 BCE: a single circular continent bounded by a circular sea, [ 56 ] and beyond the sea a number of equally spaced triangles called nagu ...

  9. Flying height - Wikipedia

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    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.