21.4 megabytes of formatted capacity; designed for single user desktop systems or as an up-grade for a personal computer; 65 millisecond average access time; standard half-height; data transfer rate of 5.0 megabits per second
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 5960-00-903-6307
NSN 5930-01-657-5288
NSN 6110-00-596-9124
NSN 6645-01-629-9657
NSN 7035-01-585-5888
NSN 5999-01-023-7997
NSN 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 5996-00-287-5059
NSN 5835-01-534-3172
NSN 6150-00-790-9992
NSN 5945-00-236-9829
NSN 2925-01-507-1276