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Upon the basis of the Juusyoku Record patent issued in 1952, Nakamatsu claims to have invented the first floppy disk [3] well before IBM's floppy disk patent was filed in 1969. [26] However, what Nakamatsu patented in 1952 was a paper for optical sound player. [ 12 ]
Norton Disk Doctor is the major addition in this 1988 release. [9] ... It adds Disk Companion, Memory Companion and Norton Utilities Companion over floppy disk version.
The Professor SF is a backup device for the Super Famicom and allows for saving games to floppy disks. A game backup device , informally called a copier , is a device for backing up ROM data from a video game cartridge to a computer file called a ROM image and playing them back on the official hardware.
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 ...
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]
The Disk System's Disk Cards are somewhat proprietary 71 mm × 76 mm (2.8 × 3 in) 56K-per-side double-sided floppy. They are a slight modification of Mitsumi's Quick Disk 71 mm 2.8 in square disk format which is used in a handful of Japanese computers and various synthesizer keyboards, along with a few word processors. QuickDisk drives are in ...
A floppy disk he sent was traced back to him, leading to his arrest in 2005. Rader confessed to all 10 murders and was convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder. He received 10 consecutive ...
Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive Patents. IBM's decision in the late 1960s to use semiconductor memory as the writeable control store for future systems and control units created a requirement for an inexpensive and reliable read only device and associated medium to store and ship the control store's microprogram and at system power on to load the microprogram into the control store.