The high-density disk will hold many more pieces of information to replicate sound than CD's do.

Karim said, "It's the gravity tug of the other high-density disk.

"It's a high-density disk, about two megabytes of information.

Windows arrived on five 5.25-inch high-density disks.

In 1999 he proposed the first write and read recording channel design concepts for patterned media - a future high-density disk storage technology.

The 3.5-inch high-density disk, one that holds the equivalent of 1.44 million characters, is increasingly the floppy of choice.

Besides their high-resolution display, the New Blue computers will utilize high-density disks of the 3 1/2-inch variety.

(This square hole identifies the disk as a high-density disk.)

Although Karim had said it was small for an interstellar ship, that living pod bulging from its stick above the high-density disk.

We went by their life quarters while it was at maximum extension from their high-density disk, but much, much closer to ours.

Except for labelling, 5 -inch high-density disks were externally identical to their double-density counterparts.

It would take nearly 60 high-density disks to hold the contents of that hard drive, if full, and that is not counting Father and Gramps.

An optional 3.5-inch disk drive capable of reading and writing high-density disks was not standard equipment, but was available via a docking unit add-on.

Imation began selling a Superdisk floppy drive that also doubles as back-up storage because it handles both regular and high-density disks.

Major differences are a strict hardware support matrix, integrated high-density disk storage and a delivery model with standard IBM product warranty.

To bolster its sagging sales of peripherals, the International Business Machines Corporation yesterday introduced a high-density disk drive and an information controller for mainframe computers.

The recording industry has taken baby steps toward this goal by squeezing more digital data onto the CD, but it is poised to take a giant step with a new high-density disk.

America's phonographically challenged orchestras might suggest an answer: Never having heard the ripping sound that the "Pathetique" Symphony could have on a high-density disk, record collectors have never heard Tchaikovsky at all.

A high-density diskette in DOS format formatted as a 720K disk would not function correctly; the Mac assumed that any high-density disk has been formatted as an HD disk.

So, borrowing a simple trick from Jim Seymour's "Productivity Bible" (Brady Books, $20), I keep a formatted, high-density disk in the computer floppy drive at all times and back up important files as I create them.

For much of the early 1990s, the Gamesampler, a subset of the Entertainment Pack small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as a free eleventh disk added to a ten-pack of Verbatim blank 3.5" microfloppy diskettes.

Number of disks included in application package - this figure could also include data as to low density or high density disks.

Using a PC with a 1.2Mb High Density disk drive try the following experiment.

Kitchen Sink Three high density disks' worth of installation (and a cuppa) later, you'll have a veritable plethora of programs to peruse.

The 'Invalid Media or Track 0 bad' message will usually appear when you're trying to reformat a higher density disk at a lower density.

The six 1.44MB high density disks take little feeding into your machine, and the install routine doesn't require much effort on behalf of the user to complete.

The density of media was similar to later PC high density floppy disks, but the 8050 and 8250 could not use PC high density disks reliably.

It's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk, especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller - you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine.

The PC version came out in several floppy disk media types (5- 5.25" high density disks), compact floppy disks, 4-3.5" high density disks) and CD-ROM versions.

In 1984, along with the IBM PC/AT, the high density disk appeared, which used 96 tracks per inch combined with a higher density magnetic media to provide 1,200 KB of storage (formally referred to as 1.2 megabytes).

Commodore 1581 formatted 3 " floppy for C64 and C128 The Amiga 3000 introduced a special, dual-speed floppy drive that also allowed to use high density disks with double capacity without any change to Paula's floppy controller.

If we were shopping for the ideal writing machine today, we would probably choose a Macintosh IIcx with 1 megabyte of memory, a 40-megabyte hard disk drive, and a 3.5-inch Floppy Disk High Density disk drive, which can actually read all those text files we created on a PC.