Special Features:

Features 05/10 mb storage capacity.Low power 75 watts typical, 125 250 kbits second transfer rate, dc drive motor eliminate ac requirements; drives read and write in single and double density on standard 5.25 inch diskettes on both sides of the diskettes

Properties:

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.