Special Features:

Requested name - disk drive; 8.35mb storage by removable cartridge; 8.35mb storage by non-removable disk; lark micro unit is a small, low cost, medium performance, random access with rotating disk mass mmory; 206 cylinders; 20672 bytes of unformatted track capacity; 2 removable and 2 fixed heads; components include; rsp pwa, fixed disk, base pwa, cartridge receiver, spindle motor, ac dist. Pwa, cooling fan, voice coil actuator, read/write preamp pwa, cartridge assembly, spindle, air filter, cartridge door/latch and operator control switches and indicators

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.