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	Encyclopedia: Floppy disk
		Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the latter initialism not to be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is an old IBM term for a hard disk drive.
		The 3Â½-inch disks had, by way of their rigid case's slide-in-place metal cover, the significant advantage of being much better protected against unintended physical contact with the disk surface when the disk was handled outside the disk drive.
		The 5Â¼-inch disk had a large circular hole in the center for the spindle of the drive and a small oval aperture in both sides of the plastic to allow the heads of the drive to read and write the data.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Floppy-disk (11774 words)

	Floppy disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence the name) magnetic medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet.
		Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, not to be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is an old IBM term for a hard disk drive.
		The 3½-inch disks had, by way of their rigid case's slide-in-place metal cover, the significant advantage of being quite well protected against unintended physical user contact with the disk surface whenever the disk was handled outside the disk drive.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/floppy_disk (4105 words)

	Floppy disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zip disks were very popular for several years, but now in 2005 their popularity is probably stabilizing as newer, higher-capacity and smaller removable disks like the Iomega 35 GB Rev drive are available.
		On the PC, however, there is no way to read an Amiga disk without special hardware or a second floppy drive ([1][2]), which is also a crucial reason for an emulator being technically unable to access real Amiga disks inserted in a standard PC floppy disk drive.
		The holes on the right side of a 3½-inch disk can be altered as to 'fool' some disk drives or operating systems into treating the disk as a higher or lower density one, for backwards compatibility or economical reasons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floppy_disk (7750 words)

	Floppy disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence "floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet.
		Amstrad incorporated a 3-inch 180 KB single-sided disk drive into their CPC and PCW lines, and this format and the drive mechanism was later "inherited" by the ZX Spectrum +3 computer after Amstrad bought Sinclair Research.
		A small floppy disk was also used in the late 1980s to store video information for still video cameras such as the Sony Mavica (not to be confused with current Digital Mavica models) and the Canon (company) Ion.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Floppy-disk.htm (5886 words)

	Commodore 1571. Who is Commodore 1571? What is Commodore 1571? Where is Commodore 1571? Definition of Commodore 1571. ...
		A fundamental flaw, however, was the fact that the number of files on a disk was still limited to 144, like the 1541.
		The 1571 was noticeably quieter than its predecessor and tended to run cooler as well, even though, like the 1541, it had the power supply inside the unit (other contemporary Commodore drives, like the 1541-II and the 3½" 1581, came with external power supplies).
		Unlike the 1541, which was limited to GCR formatting, the 1571 could do both GCR and MFM disk formats.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Commodore_1571 (349 words)

	Definition of Floppy disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Japanese inventor, Yoshiro Nakamatsu (aka Dr. NakaMats), claims he independently came up with the floppy disk principle back in 1950, and so a sales license had to be acquired by IBM when they started manufacturing their floppy disk systems twenty years later.
		The disk format itself was not more capient than the more popular (and cheap) 5¼" floppies, but was more reliable thanks to its hard casing.
		It was possible to manually force the movement of the drive head carriage in the Commodore 1541 and 1571 disk drives by the use of special commands.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Floppy_disk (6179 words)

	New 8-Bit Power Tools
		This is done by notching the opposite side of the disk, flipping it over, and formatting the reverse side of the disk.
		The proper term for such a disk is "flippy", since you must flip the disk over to access side two.
		It is true that side two is written in the opposite direction, relative to side one, but you couldn't use this disk as a flippy anyway, since there is no directory information on the second side.
	www.atarimagazines.com /v8n1/8bitpowertools.html (2711 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Flippy disk
		For operating systems that do not use the index hole in the disk to mark the beginnings of tracks, the "flippy" modification requires only a new write-enable notch to be cut.
		For those that do use index sync, however, a second index hole window must be punched in both sides of the jacket, and for hard sectored formats, an additional window must be punched for the sector holes.
		While cutting a second notch was relatively safe, cutting additional windows into the jacket was at great peril to the disk within.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Flippy_disk (319 words)

	Diskette data recovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Get info on disk data recovery etc. disk data recvery data recovery service, data reovery serice related to data recovery tools is required by data recoburie tiols by cd data recovery.
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		I need flippy disk data rcovery and data recovery utility, data lecovurie utiity, flash data recovery is the same as cssfrash data recovry.
	www.lifesizestatue.com /computer_service/diskette-data-recovery.htm (2733 words)

	2004_02_21.html flippy
		A flippy disk was recorded on both sides, but was designed to be read in a "normal" (for the time) single side disk drive.
		WordsoftheDayflippy : "A flippy disk was recorded on both sides, but was designed to be read in a "normal" (for the time) single side disk drive.
		It was considered to be a shaky practice, as flipping the disk caused it to be rotated in the "wrong" driection, which would occasionally result in damage to the magnetic coating on the disk.
	aplawrence.com /Words/2004_02_21.html (222 words)

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		The formatted braille manual on disk is pre-set for a carriage width of 40 and a form length of 25.
		Flippy disks enable you to copy the BEX Boot side on one side and the BEX Main side on the other.
		In this configuration, drive 2 (the 5.25 inch disk drive) is your "default data drive." When you don't put a number in front of a chapter name, you are referring to a chapter on your 5.25 inch disk.
	personalpages.tds.net /~ti51/new82.htm (12210 words)

	1750 Disk - cbm - FidoNet Echomail Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It shouldn't take more than a day to get her settled in, and I'll then see about digging out one of my flat 128's and 1571 to copy the 1750 disk.
		I know you only have a 1541, but the REU disk is a "flippy" disk (notched so that each side is in 1541 format).
		I'll try to find my REU utils disk as well to put on the backside for you.
	fidonet.sensationcontent.com /echomail/cbm/ba96f08934fc9b25.html (216 words)

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		It comes on a "flippy" disk (C64/128, IBM/Tandy), includes four puzzles, and offers fine 3-D graphics and game play, joystick and keyboard control, a two-player mode, and copy protection.
		The MENTAL BLOCKS package comes with a "flippy" disk (copy-protected on both sides) and an instruction manual for both versions.
		The MENTAL BLOCKS package comes on one 5-1/4" "flippy" disk, copy-protected on both sides (a 3-1/2" disk is available for $3), and an instruction manual for both versions.
	www.textfiles.com /games/REVIEWS/mental.rev (930 words)

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		The VEGAS CASINO 2 package comes with one copy-protected flippy disk and an instruction booklet ("booklet" is an exaggeration).
		VG2 looks okay and plays easily enough but, contrary to the claims on the package, it isn't really so close to the fast lane that it'll make you feel as though you're "on the strip." In fact, VG2 is extremely low-key.
		The 5-1/4" flippy disk is copy-protected, which did away with the hard drive.
	www.textfiles.com /games/REVIEWS/vegas.rev (787 words)

	oldskool support -> [apple ii <-> ibm pc transfers] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since the Apple II is able to control the disk drive directly via software (as opposed to the clunky serial interfaces used by the Commodore and Atari disk drives of the time), some devious manners of copy protection were developed on the Apple II.
		The original 1978 'Disk ][' is the beige drive with fl faceplate that was used with the Apple ][, ][+, and //e.
		However, on the IIgs, disks in an Apple 3.5 Drive are commonly formatted with a 2:1 interleave, since the Apple 3.5 Drive is under software control, and the IIgs's zippy 2.8MHz 65c816 can easily keep up with the transfer rate from a 2:1 diskette.
	retro.icequake.net /apple2pc.html (2334 words)

	Flippy flyer information - recommendations from retrofactshub.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pinball at the Zoo is only a few wks before Flippy and I get hitched, so a...
		Perhaps finding recommendations from groups where people are discussing flippy flyer might be of use like...
		Click here for groups that talk about flippy flyer.
	www.retrofactshub.com /flippyflyer.html (343 words)

	Commodore 1571 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 1571 was released along with the Commodore 128, for which it was designed.
		A C128 in CP/M mode equipped with a 1571, was capable of reading and writing floppy disks formatted for many /A> computers; specifically, the following formats:
		Kaypro II, IV With additional software, it was possible to read and write to MSDOS-formatted floppies as well.
	www.theezine.net /c/commodore-1571.html (347 words)

	Newsletter 51: April 1987
		A box of ten flippy disks is winging its way to each of the five finalists (in alphabetical order): Chad Andrelli, David Goldstein, Dan Marshall, Dean Martineau, and Dan Nagengast.
		The death of one flippy disk could mean as many as two hundred thousand characters lost.
		I find that numbering disks is easier than naming them, since you can get so much on a disk that a single name does not apply to all the files.
	personalpages.tds.net /~ti51/new51.htm (7350 words)

	Installing a floppy drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		cannot be floppy disk recovery is the same as sony memory stick floppy disk adapter
		This website has information on floppy disk digital camera resources.
		and 3.5 floppy disk is the same as 5.25 floppy disk
	pc-abc.com.au /installingafloppydrive.htm (435 words)

	Some possibly interesting files... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These are ShrinkIt Disk Archives (.SDK) of several 5.25-inch disk-sides worth of software for the PCPI AppliCard.
		Patched device drivers for the Spartan SCSI interface for the Amiga 500 to correct a bug that limited the maximum hard disk size to 512MB.
		Utilities and BIOS source code (mostly in Aztec C for CP/M and Z80 assembly language) for operating IDE hard disks on 8-bit (Z80, CP/M) computers.
	www.mylinuxisp.com /~jdbaker/oldsite/binaries (413 words)

	3.4) What are the Atari 810, 815, 1050, and XF551 Disk Drives?
		The Atari Disk Drives provide storage and retrieval of programs and data on 5.25" floppy disks.
		==> Atari 810 --- a 5.25" floppy disk drive The least common denominator for the Atari.
		Specifically, these commercial disks do not load in, and can be damaged by, the XF551: - Flight Simulator II (subLOGIC) - Blue Max (Synapse) - Bank Street Writer (Broderbund).
	www.faqs.org /faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-20.html (523 words)

	AtariAge Forums -> For trd/sale: NES,SNES,Atari 800 games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I have a complete copy of TrailBlazer, Atari/C64 "flippy." Disk and manual are like new, only played game once.
		Wizards Crown-complete boxed with all disks and manuals/inserts, very good condition -Atari
		All disks and manuals are in good to mint condition.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=24550 (654 words)

	Flippy disk Details, Meaning Flippy disk Article and Explanation Guide
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		Flippy disk Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Flippy disk
	www.e-paranoids.com /f/fl/flippy_disk.html (182 words)

	Comments on: Actually I quite liked it
		A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.
		I'm intrigued by your last line, Jason -- and by the way, textfiles.com (at least the Apple II crack screens assembled there) are in my most recent piece of digital art, Mystery House Kracked by the Flippy* Disk.* Good luck on the rollout of the BBS documentary.
		I’m intrigued by your last line, Jason — and by the way, textfiles.com (at least the Apple II crack screens assembled there) are in my most recent piece of digital art, Mystery House Kracked by the Flippy Disk.
	grandtextauto.gatech.edu /2005/04/30/actually-i-quite-liked-it/feed (2516 words)

	Final CP/M-80 diskette inventory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stackworth FORTH TJ 4/30/81 SSSD Dysan box, no markings Pascal SSSD Dysan box, no markings INDEX EPROM SSSD Dysan box, no markings Modem 2.17 etc 11/30/81 SSSD Dysan box, no markings Development System COM files ASM LINK etc --- 2/18/81 disk #1 SSSD Dysan box, no markings Dev.
		COM files 2/18/81 Disk #2 SSSD Dysan box, no markings Dev.
		COM files 2/18/81 Disk #3 recopied 5/26/81 SSSD Dysan box, no markings FIDO formatter 7/10 FIDO copy 7/10 Sysgen 7/30 7/9/81 SSSD Dysan box, no markings COPY (disc copy utility) for FIDO CP/M 2.21 7/11/81 SSSD Dysan box, no markings Old IMDOS disk, has DIABLO printer driver SSSD Dysan box, no markings
	www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctech/2004-December/036905.html (430 words)

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