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  2. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

  3. Track (disk drive) - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. Disk structures: (A) Track (B) Geometrical sector (C) Track sector (D) Cluster A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read.

  4. Parallel ATA - Wikipedia

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    Parallel ATA (PATA), originally AT Attachment, also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible computers.It was first developed by Western Digital and Compaq in 1986 for compatible hard drives and CD or DVD drives.

  5. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  6. Beat (music) - Wikipedia

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    Metric levels: beat level shown in middle with division levels above and multiple levels below. In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level [1] (or beat level). [2]

  7. Geosynthetics - Wikipedia

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    Geotextile sandbags protected the historic house Kliffende on Sylt island against storms, which eroded the cliffs left and right from the sandbag barrier. [1] Geotextile sandbags can be approximately 20 m long, such as those used for the artificial reef at Narrow Neck, Queensland.

  8. Diablerets - Wikipedia

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    The Diablerets massif from the north including the Oldehore (left), the Scex Rouge (centre) and the main summit (right) The main summit from the southeast side. Along with the Muverans, the Wildhorn and the Wildstrubel, the Diablerets are one of the four distinct and glaciated massifs of the Bernese Alps that lie between the Rhone elbow and the Gemmi Pass.

  9. Duduk - Wikipedia

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    The duduk (/ d uː ˈ d uː k / doo-DOOK; Armenian: դուդուկ IPA:) [1] or tsiranapogh (Armenian: ծիրանափող, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia.