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 5985-01-213-7474
NSN 5915-00-945-3502
NSN 6135-00-262-6807
NSN 5835-01-388-5198
NSN 5950-01-495-7011
NSN 5950-01-421-9243
NSN 4140-00-161-6327
NSN 4140-01-164-2274
NSN 5925-01-643-4442
NSN 5975-01-176-0168
NSN 5998-01-039-7359
NSN 5895-01-106-6142