Floppy-disk controller
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floppy-disk-controller-164-10974890
title:
Floppy-disk controller
text:
A floppy-disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It has evolved from a discrete set of components on one or more circuit boards to a special-purpose integrated circuit or a component thereof. An FDC is responsible for reading data presented from the host computer and converting it to the drive's on-disk format using one of a number of encoding schemes, like FM encoding or MFM encoding, and reading t
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Circuitry that controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy-disk_controller
date created:
2005-09-06T08:49:12Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T00:58:26Z
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13
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