dongle-disk

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dongle-disk - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

dongle-disk - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dongle-disk
   /don'gl disk/, n.
  
     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.) Also
     called a key disk. See dongle.