5 disks per drive with 8 surfaces per drive; 170.6 mbytes unformatted; 5 1/4 in. Disk drives; high-speed, high capacity, random-access storage
An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5855-01-502-9403
NSN 6145-01-488-5671
NSN 6105-00-913-9591
NSN 5920-01-442-3140
NSN 5935-01-183-8575
NSN 7035-00-908-4933
NSN 6130-00-280-3696
NSN 5915-01-471-7079
NSN 5895-00-003-9137
NSN 6645-00-072-1909
NSN 6685-00-292-3162
NSN 2925-01-225-0713