Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - History
Floppy disk - Origins the 8-inch disk. See also: Table of 8-inch floppy formats In 1967 IBM gave their San Jose, California storage d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodore 1541: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodore 1541 - The Serial Computer Interface
The 1541 used a bit-serial version of the IEEE-488 interface, the speedier parallel version of which was used on Commodore's earlier driv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Blaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Blaster - Multi-channel Sound And F/x
Sound Blaster - Sound Blaster PCI64 and PCI128. The Sound Blaster PCI64 (April 1998) added four-speaker support (quadraphonic sound). N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - History
Floppy disk - Origins the 8-inch disk. In 1967 IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a new task: develop a sim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodore 1541: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodore 1541 - Versions And Third-party Clones
There were two versions of the 1541 mechanics. Early models used a drive mechanism made by Alps Electric, distinguishable by its push-dow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodore 1541: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodore 1541 - Introduction And Early Problems
Priced at under US$400 at its introduction, the 1541 became widely popular. Although expensive by today's standards, a C64 plus a 1541 co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodore 1541: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodore 1541 - The Drive Head Misalignment Issue
The drive-head mechanism was notoriously easy to misalign, and had a tendency to make a 'machine-gun' rattle when out of alignment or whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Current Situation
The 8-inch, 5¼-inch and 3-inch formats can be considered almost totally dead. 3½-inch drives and disks are still widely available. As o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Blaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Blaster - Sound Blasters With Onboard Wavetable Synthesis
Sound Blaster - Sound Blaster AWE32. The Sound Blaster AWE32, introduced in March 1994, was a full-length ISA card, measuring 14 inches...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodore 1541: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodore 1541 - Copy Protection By Read Error
Early copy prevention schemes deliberately introduced read errors on the disk, the software refusing to load unless the correct error mes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Blaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Blaster - First Sound Blasters: The Right Bundle
The first board bearing the Sound Blaster name appeared in November 1989. In addition to Game Blaster features, it had a 11-voice FM synt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Current Situation
The 8-inch, 5¼-inch and 3-inch formats can be considered almost totally dead. 3½-inch drives and disks are still widely available. As o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Structure
The 5¼-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 pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Floppy Killers
Through the early 1990s a number of attempts were made by various companies to introduce newer floppy-like formats based on the now-unive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Compatibility
In general, different physical sizes of floppy disks are incompatible by definition, and disks can only be loaded on the correct size of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - More On Floppy Disk Formats
Floppy disk - Using the disk space efficiently. In general, data is written to floppy disks in a series of sectors, angular blocks of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Background
Floppy disks, also known as floppies or diskettes (a name chosen in order to be similar to the word "cassette"), were ubiquitous in the 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Blaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Blaster - The Pre-sound Blaster Years
The history of Creative Labs sound boards started with the release of the Creative Music System ("C/MS") board in August 1987. It contain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Floppy Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Floppy Disk - Usability
One of the chief usability problems of the floppy disk is its vulnerability. Even inside a closed plastic housing, the disk medium is sti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Blaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Blaster - Improved Quality: Stereo And 16 Bits
Sound Blaster - Sound Blaster Pro. The Sound Blaster Pro (May 1991) added stereo capabilities, but not yet at CD quality level, since i...   » Read the article