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.
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(1998-12-13)