DK811-4 Magnetic Disk Unit

By admin , 15 December 2015
DK811-4
Description

This 8-inch disk unit was marketed as an OEM disk unit for office computer manufacturers.
Since the unit employed a voice coil motor system as a head positioning mechanism, instead of the previous step motor, seek time was greatly increased to 25ms.

Year First Manufactured
1980

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