What is a disk drive, What is a disk drive? -1 – Brother CM-2000 User Manual
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What is a Disk Drive?
While your typewriter is switched on, the machine can store up to 32,400 characters of
text in its internal memory, but there are two disadvantages to this. Firstly, the stored text
would be lost if the machine was switched off, and secondly, once the memory became
full you would not be able to store any more text.
To allow you to save unlimited amounts oftext, yourtypewriter is equipped with a floppy
disk drive. This is located in the right-hand side of your typewriter.
The floppy disk drive allows you to transfer your document from the machine’s memory
and record it on a rotating disk made of a magnetic material similar to audio and video
cassette tapes.
Once you have saved a document on a disk, it will remember the document even if the
power is switched off. Furthermore, if a floppy digli becomes full and can hold no more
information, you can remove it from the diskdrive and replace it with a blank one. You can
also use a disk from yourtypewriter (and the documents on it) in some other Brother
wordprocessors or an IBM compatible personal computer,