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The 5.25-inch fixed/removable disk drive
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Source AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences archive
Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference table of contents
Houston, Texas
SESSION: Hardware/computer architecture table of contents
Pages 11-17  
Year of Publication: 1982
ISBN ~ ISSN:0095-6880 , 0-88283-035-X
Author
Don M. Minami  DMA Systems Corporation, Santa Barbara, California
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AFIPS : American Federation of Information Processing Societies
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The fixed/removable 5.25-inch Winchester drive provides combined computer peripheral support functions, such as mass storage, input/output, and backup. The 13.5-MByte total capacity (6.75 MBytes fixed/6.75 MBytes removable) is packaged in a unit about the size of a shoebox.

Reliability has been the major factor in determining the design parameters of the fixed/removable drive. Not only has Winchester reliability been enhanced, but preventive maintenance has been eliminated.