Consists of housing spindle; cca 2; cover 3; head, magnetic recording 16; disk, magnetic 1; assorted hardware
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.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5925-00-435-3849
NSN 6685-00-729-6498
NSN 5895-01-515-0643
NSN 6320-00-295-2854
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 5905-00-009-6924
NSN 5835-01-122-9657
NSN 5975-01-650-5677
NSN 6135-01-335-9184
NSN 6620-01-578-6562
NSN 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 5965-01-501-5638