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... floppy drive for the operating system . With early computers , operating systems were not permanently stored on the hard drive but were instead loaded into the system from a floppy disk . ( That's how DOS , or Disk Operating System ...
... floppy drive for the operating system . With early computers , operating systems were not permanently stored on the hard drive but were instead loaded into the system from a floppy disk . ( That's how DOS , or Disk Operating System ...
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... floppy or flash drive . Equally impor- tant , you need alternate storage options to back up data on your hard drive in case it experiences a head crash or other system problems . Finally , despite the massive stor- age capacity of hard ...
... floppy or flash drive . Equally impor- tant , you need alternate storage options to back up data on your hard drive in case it experiences a head crash or other system problems . Finally , despite the massive stor- age capacity of hard ...
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... Floppy and Zip Disks How is data stored on floppy and Zip disks ? Inside the plastic cases of both floppy and Zip disks you'll find a round piece of plas- tic film . This film is covered with a magnetized coating of iron oxide . As is ...
... Floppy and Zip Disks How is data stored on floppy and Zip disks ? Inside the plastic cases of both floppy and Zip disks you'll find a round piece of plas- tic film . This film is covered with a magnetized coating of iron oxide . As is ...
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