Special Features:

Single or double density, 8.000 in. Dia. Floppy disk capacity, formatted, 500 or 1000 kbytes; operating temp. C 10.0 to 46.1 deg; ac power 110.0 to 115.0 or 200.0 vac at 50.0 to 60.0 hz at 350 ma or 230 ma; dc power plus 24.0 vdc at 850 ma and plus 5.0 vdc at 1.0 amps; o/a dim. 14.250 in. Deep, 8.550 in. W, 4.620 in. Hgt

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.