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New page: DASD is an acronym made popular by IBM for Direct Access Storage Device. It simply means any ‘random access’ device, like a floppy disk, hard disk, CD-ROM. |
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DASD is | '''Direct Access Storage Device''', usually in the form of the acronym, '''DASD''', is [[International Business Machines|IBM]] jargon for [[random access]] [[secondary storage]] devices, such as [[floppy disk]]s, hard [[disk]]s, or CD-ROMs. | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:50, 25 August 2021
Direct Access Storage Device, usually in the form of the acronym, DASD, is IBM jargon for random access secondary storage devices, such as floppy disks, hard disks, or CD-ROMs.
