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 5895-01-278-5297
NSN 6220-01-222-9554
NSN 6620-01-106-2814
NSN 6130-01-437-1309
NSN 4140-01-576-0184
NSN 6150-00-964-7303
NSN 6150-01-604-9750
NSN 5910-01-044-4649
NSN 5960-01-056-4982
NSN 5920-01-096-1864
NSN 6220-01-203-3756
NSN 5905-00-407-1191