disk-drive mechanism
31hard disk — The part of a hard disk drive that stores data, rather than the mechanism for reading and writing to it. Sometimes called a platter …
32Cycloidal drive — For the marine propulsion system, see Voith Schneider. A cycloidal drive or cycloidal speed reducer is a mechanism for reducing the speed of an input shaft by a certain ratio. Cycloidal speed reducers are capable of high ratios in compact sizes.… …
33eccentric-and-rod mechanism — ▪ mechanics arrangement of mechanical parts used to obtain a reciprocating straight line motion from a rotating shaft; it serves the same purpose as a slider crank mechanism and is particularly useful when the required stroke of the… …
34Buchli drive — The Buchli drive is a transmission system used in electric locomotives. It was named after its inventor, Swiss engineer Jakob Buchli [:de:Jakob Buchli| [Deutsch] ] . The drive is a fully spring loaded drive, in which each floating axle has an… …
35Eccentric (mechanism) — An eccentric in mechanical engineering is a circular disk ( eccentric sheave ) solidly fixed to a rotating axle with its centre offset from that of the axle (hence the word eccentric , out of the centre). It is most often employed in steam… …
36Sudden Motion Sensor — The Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) is Apple s patent pending motion based hardware and data protection system used in their notebook computer systems. Apple introduced the system January 1, 2005 in its refreshed PowerBook line, and included it in the …
37Winchester — I. adjective Etymology: from the code name used by the original developer Date: 1973 relating to or being computer disk technology that permits high density storage by sealing the rigid metal disks within the disk drive mechanism as protection… …
38DOS/360 and successors — Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, was an operating system for IBM mainframes. It was announced by IBM on the last day of 1964, and it was first delivered in June 1966. [E.W. Pugh, L.R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer, IBM s 360… …
39Commodore 1541 — Front view of the most common version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive, with open disk slot. This version uses a Newtronics drive mechanism, and the rotating lever is used to hold the disk in place …
40Commodore DOS — Commodore DOS, aka CBM DOS, was the disk operating system used with Commodore s 8 bit computers. Unlike most other DOS systems before or since which are booted from disk into the main computer s own RAM at startup, and executed there CBM DOS was… …
