First Class Peripherals Sider D4, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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I/O Cable: The communication link between a computer system and
peripheral device.
Initialize: Following the physical format of a disk storage medium, the
computer initialize, or records, the directory, partition and
volume parameters at strategic points on the medium.
K: Acronym for kilobytes, 1,024 bytes.
Logical Drive: Characteristics created with software that make more effident
use of the physical drive. The computer, in effect,
communicates with multiple fixed disks rather than just one.
Medium: A material and an associated technique for recording infor-
mation. The most common media are floppy disks, fixed
disks and tape in various forms.
Megabyte: 1,048,576 bytes.
Memory: The area of the computer that stores data.
Operating System: A group of computer programs that direct the operations of
a computer system, particularly relating to disk drives, data
storage and peripheral devices.
Partition: A Set of cylinders on a physical drive, usually a fixed disk
drive. The cylinder set defines a physical region on the fixed
disk drive that may contain one logical drive.
Pascal: A high-level disk operating system produced by Apple
Computer, Inc.
Path Name: The list of names leading from a root directory to a subdirec-
tory, or from a source file to a destination file.
Peripheral Device: Equipment externally connected to a computer system; e.g.,
the Sider.
Physical Drive: The mechanical device that contains rotating disks with a
magnetic recording medium; a fixed disk drive is a physical
drive, sometimes referred to as a ‘spindle. One or more
logical drives may reside on one physical drive.
Program: A Sequence of commands that instruct a computer or its
peripheral devices to perform a task.
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