However, Bradford said the company has issued a software patch to prevent possible malfunction by floppy disk controllers in about 60, 000 Toshiba laptops the government has bought since 1998.
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Several years ago Ellsworth cornered Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, at a festival for vintage Apple computers and badgered him for the secrets of his Apple II floppy disk controller.
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The deletion of the 12V power supply crippled some peripherals such as the original floppy disk controller, which then needed to be upgraded, installed in a Multi-Pak interface, or supplied with external power.
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A TU-ART ( dual serial and parallel board ), 4FDC Floppy Disk Controller, one or more 16KZRAM cards, and a Wangco 5?" floppy disk drive would be added to form a basic system.
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Because of the error in the microcode _ the instructions for the floppy disk controller _ such errors sometimes go undetected, according to Gary Elsasser, vice president of international marketing for Toshiba America Information Systems.
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But the company reported expenses of 106.39 billion yen, or $ 999 million, linked to last year's settlement of a U . S . suit over the floppy disk controllers used in its laptop computers.
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Compaq contends the defect never existed and said the company informed computer owners of a software patch which could be installed to protect their computer from floppy disk controller problems, when it learned of the lawsuit.
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Tucked into the proliferation of pages that marked the official $ 2.1 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Toshiba laptop floppy disk controllers nearly two years ago was " finding of fact " number 43:
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Gary Kildall originally developed CP / M during 1974, as an operating system to run on an Intel Intellec-8 development system, equipped with a Shugart Associates 8-inch floppy disk drive interfaced via a custom floppy disk controller.
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But the company reported expenses of 106 . 39 billion yen, or $ 999 million, linked to last year's settlement of a U . S . suit over the floppy disk controllers used in its laptop computers.
