Since it was necessary to have a Cromemco floppy disk controller to use CDOS, and since these disk controllers had an on card serial port such a system would have no need of an Octart style board.
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An improved version known as the "'VTech Laser 310 "', or the "'Dick Smith VZ 300 "'featured a full travel keyboard and 8K ROM software based Floppy Disk Controller, was released in 1985 and continued until 1989.
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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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A state judge denied a request by lawyers suing Compaq Computer Corp . who wanted to post on the Internet company documents they say would show the company knowingly sold 1.8 million computers with defective floppy disk controllers.
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Compaq contends the defect never existed and said the company informed computer owners of a " so-called'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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Perhaps his most critical early contribution was the RWTS ( read / write track-sector ) routines for the Disk II, the 5 " floppy disk controller introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) show in early 1978.
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"The court does not hold that Compaq admitted the existence of the alleged ( floppy disk controller ) defect by acting as it did and does not prejudge the admissibility of such evidence for any purpose, " the judge wrote.
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Each byte in the screen RAM addressed a character in either the character ROM or PCG RAM . A second board, termed the " core board ", contained the memory, and on later models also included a floppy disk controller.
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A state judge denied a request by lawyers suing Compaq Computer Corp . who wanted to post on the Internet company documents they say would show the company knowingly sold 1 . 8 million computers with defective floppy disk controllers.
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This change greatly reduced the chip count and allowed the circuitry for the Floppy Disk Controller and the RS-232 serial port to be included on the CPU board ( making this new Model 4 a single-board computer, unlike the original 26-1069 ).
