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    floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...
    78 KB (8,553 words) - 21:59, 6 June 2024
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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
    138 KB (14,062 words) - 22:35, 23 May 2024
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    The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike...
    28 KB (3,736 words) - 03:41, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hipp reversible disk signal
    time by 270°. Thereafter, the signal has had a unique front and back. Two small white disks are mounted below the large disk and perpendicular to it. They...
    7 KB (976 words) - 00:12, 17 February 2024
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    system to retransmit data over connector and signal of a different standard. Factory-assembled external hard disk drives, external DVD-ROM drives, and others...
    16 KB (1,995 words) - 15:35, 14 September 2023
  • Each generation of floppy disk drive (FDD) began with a variety of incompatible interfaces but soon evolved into one de facto standard interface for the...
    17 KB (1,177 words) - 16:08, 24 May 2024
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    interface and the disk read/write head can operate at full speed. The disk's embedded microcontroller may signal the main computer that a disk write is complete...
    13 KB (1,614 words) - 22:58, 23 May 2024
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    A floppy-disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It has...
    33 KB (3,324 words) - 17:52, 20 May 2024
  • digital mixing and processing of the audio signal to produce a digital audio workstation (DAW). Direct-to-disk recording (DDR) refers to methods which may...
    6 KB (824 words) - 06:24, 16 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Floppy disk variants
    The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...
    51 KB (6,337 words) - 12:56, 24 February 2024
  • Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction...
    15 KB (1,558 words) - 16:36, 31 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Magnetic storage
    Magnetic storage media, primarily hard disks, are widely used to store computer data as well as audio and video signals. In the field of computing, the term...
    18 KB (2,106 words) - 16:21, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Digital signal processor
    digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing...
    25 KB (2,883 words) - 21:16, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nipkow disk
    A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating...
    8 KB (1,112 words) - 04:21, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Disk controller
    A disk controller is a controller circuit that enables a CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides...
    3 KB (430 words) - 03:49, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Floppy disk hardware emulator
    floppy disk drives. A typical floppy disk controller sends an MFM / FM / GCR encoded signal to the drive to write data, and expects a similar signal returned...
    7 KB (709 words) - 09:21, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Railway semaphore signal
    semaphore distant signals consist of one yellow disk with a black and white outline and an (optional) thin yellow arrow-shaped disk with a black and white...
    27 KB (3,836 words) - 22:03, 23 April 2024
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    RPM gauge) is an instrument measuring the rotation speed of a shaft or disk, as in a motor or other machine. The device usually displays the revolutions...
    14 KB (1,829 words) - 14:42, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Disk read-and-write head
    A disk read-and-write head is the small part of a disk drive which moves above the disk platter and transforms the platter's magnetic field into electric...
    10 KB (1,217 words) - 20:03, 28 February 2024
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    Apodization (category Signal processing)
    represent an electrical signal, an optical transmission, or a mechanical structure. In optics, it is primarily used to remove Airy disks caused by diffraction...
    9 KB (1,077 words) - 04:40, 19 May 2024
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