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Commodore 1541 – Introduction

Commodore 1541 disk drive, with open disk slot. This version uses a Newtronics drive mechanism, and the rotating lever is used to hold the disk in place.:$endImage–> The Commodore 1541 (aka CBM 1541, and originally called VIC-1541), made by Commodore International, was the best-known floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64 home computer. The 1541 [...]

Apple II series – General

Data storage Originally the Apple II used audio cassette tapes for program and data storage. A dedicated tape recorder along the lines of the Commodore Datasette was never produced; Apple recommended using the Panasonic RQ309 in some of its early printed documentation. Apple and many third-party developers made software available on tape at first, but [...]

History of the floppy disk – The 5¼-inch minifloppy

In 1976 at a meeting An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates’s, Jim Adkisson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was simply too large for the desktop word processing machines he was developing at the time. Adkinson and Massaro proposed a 5¼-inches wide format which Wang accepted. Shugart Associates then developed a new [...]

Elektronika BK – Software

Although the BK series was included in a governmental economic plan, customer support, apparently, was not, as it was essentially a bare-bone machine, without any peripherals or development tools. The only software available at the launch (except ROM firmware) was an included magnetic tape with an early version of BASIC, several programming examples (both for [...]

Aster CT-80 – Models

Three models were sold. The first model looked like the later IBM PC (which came on the market years later), a rectangular base unit with two floppy drives on the front, and a monitor on top with a separate detachable keyboard. The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5 1/4″ [...]

Research Machines 380Z – Software

Network Operating Systems

Operating systems The main disk operating system was CP/M, initially CP/M 1.4 and later CP/M 2.2. MP/M II was used on the file server version, which supported a network of LINK 480Z computers using CP/NET. Application software Many standard CP/M applications were available, such as WordStar. Research Machines also produced their own assembler (ZASM), text [...]

Disk operating system – History

Unix Operating Systems

In the early days of computers, there were no disk drives; delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, magnetic drums, were used instead. And in the early days of microcomputers, paper tape or audio cassette tape (see Kansas City standard) or nothing were used instead. In the latter case, program and data entry was [...]

Disk operating system – Introduction

IBM I Operating System

Disk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refers to an operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information [...]

File system – File systems and operating systems

Plan 9 Operating System

Most operating systems provide a file system, as a file system is an integral part of any modern operating system. Early microcomputer operating systems’ only real task was file management — a fact reflected in their names (see DOS). Some early operating systems had a separate component for handling file systems which was called a [...]

Banyan VINES – VINES competitors

NetWare Operating System

For fully one decade Banyan’s OS competitors, Novell and Microsoft, dismissed the utility of directory services. Thus VINES virtually dominated what would come to be called the “directory services” space from 1985 to 1995. While seeming to ignore VINES, Novell and eventually Microsoft – companies with a flat server- or domain-based network model – came [...]

Disk Quotas

To prevent people from hogging too much disk space, multiuser operating systems often provide a mechanism for enforcing disk quotas. The idea is that the system administrator assigns each user a maximum allotment of files and blocks, and the operating system makes sure that the users do not exceed their quotas.

Temperature Changes and Hard Disk Failure

Hard disk failure occurs when logical or physical malfunction takes place. The logical malfunction happens because of issues like file system corruption, operating system failure, application corruption

Cleaning and Organizing Your Computer

disk operating system

Is your computer running slow. There are a few utilities built right in to the Windows operating system that can help this problem. The Disk Cleanup, Add or Remove Programs utility, and the Disk Defragmentor can clean and organize your computer.

Know Your Computer Operating System

Disk operating system

The operating system is a software whose function is to provide services to the user, whereby the operating system also serves as an interface between hardware and software. As we all know that, the computer consists of three basic parts, namely hardware, software and user.









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