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IBM floppy disk drive
IBM floppy disk drive
IBM floppy disk drive

IBM floppy disk drive

physical object

Identifier
2010.1.37
Description
This is IBM 5.25 inch high density half height floppy disk drive. Based on the original note of description, this uses stepper motor principle to drive the read write heads. In an easier way, the stepper motor principle can be thought as DC motor principle. This has stored approximately 1.2MB of data.
Related Term
Magnetic Disks (describes)

Related people
Systems Design Undergraduate Lab (was donor of)
Kina Kim (is documentarian of)