Epson Equity 386SX PLUS, User Manual

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Tracks
Addressable, concentric circles on a disk, resembling the
grooves on a record, which help to divide the disk into separate
accessible areas. There are 80 tracks on each side of a double-
sided 1.44MB, 1.2MB, or 720KB diskette and 40 tracks on each
side of a double-sided 360KB diskette. The number of tracks on
a hard disk depends on its capacity.
VGA
Video Graphics Array. A type of high-resolution color display
adapter card that can display monochrome text and graphics at
up to 720 x 400 resolution, 16-color graphics at up to 640 x 480
resolution, or 256-color graphics at 320 x 200 resolution.
Video card
The display adapter card installed in one of the computer’s
option slots. The video card provides the interface to which you
connect the monitor and controls the way the monitor displays
text and graphics. Also known as Display adapter card.
Wildcard
A character that represents any character or group of characters.
The wildcard character * (asterisk) represents a group of
characters, and the wildcard character ? (question mark)
represents a single character.
Write
To store data on a disk.
Write-protect
To protect the data on a diskette from being changed by setting
the write-protect switch on a 3
diskette or by placing a
write-protect tab over the notch on the side of a 5
diskette. When a diskette is write-protected, you cannot erase,
change, or record over its contents.
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