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 5935-01-502-7673
NSN 6110-00-105-0428
NSN 6620-00-290-6505
NSN 6110-01-177-5551
NSN 6220-01-359-2603
NSN 5965-01-398-9579
NSN 6650-00-266-6808
NSN 6110-00-701-0765
NSN 6110-00-446-1045
NSN 5905-00-259-9280
NSN 5975-00-041-1426
NSN 5990-01-384-2697