Special Features:

Manufacturers name: airborne data transfer system or airborne data loader; operates at 400hz when using ac voltage; designed to fit into the ms25212 front panel specs for airborne units; uses standard ms-dos compatible floppy disks to transfer data between the aircraft computer and ground support equipment to initialize the aircrafts preprogrammed flight missions and load operational flight plans; also records the the aircraft's in-flight performance; the disk drive unit is housed in an airborne chassis box that includes cca modules for the power supply, disk drive interface assembly, computer interface assembly and the motherboard that comprisesthe main components of this chassis

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.