magnetic disc

To store more data and programs when the power is off, most computers use magnetic discs.

The playing pieces are magnetic discs, with one side white and the other black, north and south respectively.

She allowed the car to settle into a concave lock and come finally to rest against a magnetic disc.

The Mavica records 50 pictures on a magnetic disc.

The magnetic disc stopped and swung in the air with Conrad stuck beneath it like a broken doll.

This level of data integrity is not usually matched by other magnetic disc or tape technologies using normal write once emulation.

Polarity is a board game that requires strategic thinking and dexterity to control hovering magnetic discs.

Truitt slipped under the rear of the Jaguar and attached a small magnetic disc to the fuel tank.

Instead of punched tape, magnetic discs store the information for two independent computers, which control two photosetters.

Other devices used spinning magnetic discs, not entirely unlike those used in modern hard disk drives.

The magnetic disc.

However, it also makes data retrieval from different parts of the disc slow compared, say, to random access from a magnetic disc.

The bottom portion of the inner curtain often comes with magnetic discs which adhere the cast iron of the bathtub itself.

Unlike existing "still video" systems, which use tiny magnetic discs to store electronic information, the CD Photo system starts off with a standard film negative.

Compared to traditional computer storage such as magnetic discs, CD-ROM is slow.

In practice, UDO Rewritable media operates like a standard magnetic disc.

I was intrigued by Catherine Caufield's comments about magnetic discs and tapes being wiped on the London Underground.

Additionally, the creation also allowed several magnetic discs to be mounted on a shaft in which a transducer could interact with more than one magnetic disk.

Before compact discs (CDs) or Internet downloads, software came on "soft media" like magnetic discs and magnetic tape.

The chip could revolutionise the design of computers and other electronic devices by doing away with the bulky magnetic disc memories that are currently used to store data permanently.

His most acclaimed achievement is co-inventing along with John Lynott United States Patent 3,503,060, which is entitled "Direct Access Magnetic Disc Storage Device".

Electronic technology uses various physical media for storing 1s and 0s, including magnetic discs, magnetic tape, punched cards and tape, and integrated 'chips' with lots of little semiconductor units inside them.

A specialized type of RAM called flash RAM is used in flash drives and more recently, solid state drives to replace mechanically rotating magnetic disc hard drives.

Mass storage was available in the form of both magnetic drum and magnetic disc with an interchangeable disc-pack capacity of 7.25 MB at a data interchange rate of 156 kbit/s.

Since we wish to keep small the amount of main store occupied by the operating system, most of it is non-resident, being stored on magnetic disc or drum and brought into main store as required.