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High-density

A type of format that allows you to store more data than on
single- or double-density diskettes. A 5

high-density

diskette can store 1.2 MB of data. A 3

high-density

diskette can store 1.44 MB of data.

Input/Output (I/O) port

See Port.

Interface

A physical or software connection used to transmit data
between equipment or programs.

Jumper

A small device that connects two pins on an option card, a disk

drive, or the main system board to activate a particular

function.

Key disk

A diskette containing a copy-protected program that must
remain in the diskette drive while you are using the program.

Kilobyte (KB)

A unit used to measure storage space in a computer’s memory or
on a disk. One kilobyte equals 1024 bytes.

LIM 4.0 EMS

Version 4.0 of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory

Specification-a protocol that allows certain application
programs to use memory that MS-DOS cannot use.

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