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 6240-01-469-6469
NSN 6685-01-309-0118
NSN 6620-00-227-6776
NSN 5990-00-170-4239
NSN 5960-00-707-3335
NSN 5996-01-461-0505
NSN 4140-01-186-6250
NSN 5960-00-253-1473
NSN 5915-00-079-6415
NSN 6320-01-429-9871
NSN 6105-00-510-7707
NSN 5990-01-012-4815