Special Features:

Yformatted capacity: 332 mbyte; peak transfer rate: 1.25 mbyte per second; average seek time: 24 milliseconds; height: full height; disk size: 5 1/4 in.; interface: small computer system interface; with expansion box; functional description: used in conjunction with vaxstation 3100 (though this could be used in any appropriate system) to store information for automatic test equipment software development engineering workstations in support of any number of weapons systems, including f-16 acft

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.