dongle-disk
/don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy
disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding
that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code
that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't.
For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special
boot disk.
[Jargon File]
(1998-12-13)
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