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• dongle-disk /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
  Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others are special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't....
• dongle /dong'gl/ n. 1. A security or copy protection device for proprietary software consisting of a serialized EPROM and some drivers in a D-25 connector shell
  which must be connected to an I/O port of the computer while the program is run....
• Floppy disk - A disk that flop
• mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
  Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out....
• EFD Eject Floppy Disk
• Who reformatted the root disk?
• What is virtual memory? Virtual memory allows you to use more memory than your machine has.
  If something is transparent, it's there, but you can't see i...
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• walking drives n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines.
  Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum...