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  • MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later and IBM PC DOS releases 1 and later. A command for copying the complete contents of a diskette to another diskette. The...
    46 KB (6,080 words) - 22:14, 20 March 2024
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    support 3.5-inch, 2.88 MB floppy drives and diskettes. The SHARE command was not needed anymore for old DOS 1.x style FCB file API to partitions over 32...
    88 KB (9,316 words) - 09:03, 23 May 2024
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    developed a 4-inch floppy disk drive, the Model 341 and an associated diskette, the DemiDiskette. At about half the size of the original 8-inch floppy disk the...
    51 KB (6,337 words) - 12:56, 24 February 2024
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    Floppy disk (redirect from Diskette)
    A 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...
    78 KB (8,551 words) - 00:55, 29 May 2024
  • of MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, and at least partially compatible disk operating systems. It does not include the many other operating systems called "DOS" which...
    33 KB (1,263 words) - 08:01, 26 April 2024
  • browsing the web immediately after entering their access credentials. Boot diskette List of self-booting IBM PC compatible games Live CD Live USB Portable...
    12 KB (1,261 words) - 15:07, 16 May 2024
  • in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of...
    234 KB (7,232 words) - 22:30, 10 February 2024
  • these bits are turned on [...] when copying from a diskette created on a 4690 system. [...] PC-DOS and Windows 2000 Professional will copy the file without...
    240 KB (11,972 words) - 01:14, 24 April 2024
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    The nine-pound battery-powered 1984 Data General/One ran MS-DOS and had dual 3.5" diskettes, a 79-key full-stroke keyboard, 128 KB to 512 KB of RAM, and...
    7 KB (715 words) - 00:08, 7 March 2024
  • undefined. At this time, DOS did not support sub-directories, but typically there were only a few dozen files on a diskette. The PC XT was the first PC...
    111 KB (8,888 words) - 00:40, 30 May 2024
  • TRSDOS (redirect from TRS-DOS)
    Model 4) support up to four physical floppy (mini-diskette) drives which (as sold) use 5¼-inch diskettes. The original TRSDOS for the Model I supported only...
    39 KB (3,793 words) - 04:55, 24 May 2024
  • "transportable" computers from Compaq. Tabor Drivette - a non-standard 3.25-inch diskette drive used in the Seequa Chameleon 325 Hardware:Review:Seequa...
    2 KB (209 words) - 05:42, 19 May 2024
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    Compaq Portable (category Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments)
    2023) with a single half-height 5+1⁄4" 360 KB diskette drive or US$3,590 for dual, full-height diskette drives. The 28 lb (13 kg) Compaq Portable folded...
    15 KB (1,680 words) - 06:04, 19 May 2024
  • drives used in non-PC platforms. Support for partitioned media, and thereby the master boot record (MBR), was introduced with IBM PC DOS 2.0 in March 1983...
    100 KB (8,699 words) - 12:22, 12 May 2024
  • Control languages: one for the operating system lineage that begins with DOS/360 and whose latest member is z/VSE; and the other for the lineage from...
    51 KB (6,344 words) - 16:29, 6 April 2024
  • WordStar (category DOS software)
    a "non-document" mode to create text files without formatting made it popular among programmers for writing code. Like the CP/M versions, the DOS WordStar...
    51 KB (6,616 words) - 08:47, 28 April 2024
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    the MBC-550 by Sanyo had many differences, including non-interchangeability of diskettes and non-standard ROM location. the DG-One by Data General was...
    46 KB (5,016 words) - 18:39, 20 May 2024
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    outnumbered by the Stoned virus. Computers could be contaminated by an infected diskette, showing up as a 1 KB bad cluster (the last one on the disk, used by the...
    3 KB (344 words) - 02:26, 18 June 2023
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    IBM PC compatible (category Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments)
    nonstandard data patterns on the diskette to verify originality. These patterns were impossible to detect using standard DOS or BIOS calls, so direct access...
    60 KB (7,144 words) - 18:26, 19 May 2024
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    name Minnow). The disk is a read-only, 8-inch-diameter (200 mm) flexible diskette called the "memory disk" and holding 80 kilobytes of data. Initially the...
    60 KB (7,044 words) - 16:29, 13 May 2024
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