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The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M 's storage products group Imation in 1996, [1] with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita. The SuperDisk had little success in North America; with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few ...
Queries per second ( QPS) is a measure of the amount of search traffic an information-retrieval system, such as a search engine or a database, receives in one second. [ 1] The term is used more broadly for any request–response system, where it can more correctly be called requests per second (RPS). High-traffic systems must be mindful of QPS ...
SuperDrive. SuperDrive is the product name for a floppy disk drive and later an optical disc drive made and marketed by Apple Inc. The name was initially used for what Apple called their high-density floppy disk drive, and later for the internal CD and DVD drive integrated with Apple computers. Though Apple no longer manufactures computers that ...
The MSD Super Disk were a series of 5¼-inch floppy disk drives compatible to some degree with the Commodore 1541 disk drive. produced by Micro Systems Development (Dallas, Texas; later MSD Systems) for use with Commodore 8-bit home computers. Two different versions of the MSD Super Disk were available: the single-drive model, SD-1; and the ...
A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...
The Sony HiFD ( Hi gh capacity F loppy D isk) was a high-capacity floppy disk system developed by Sony and Fujifilm and introduced in late 1998. [ 1] Development and sale of the drives was discontinued by early 2001. [ 2]
An attempt to enhance the existing 3½-inch designs was the SuperDisk in the late 1990s, using very narrow data tracks and a high precision head guidance mechanism with a capacity of 120 MB [15] and backward-compatibility with standard 3½-inch floppies; a format war briefly occurred between SuperDisk and other high-density floppy-disk products ...
The back of a parallel-port ZIP-100 with printer pass-through. The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. [1] Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally ...