Cognizant service: navy
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 5895-01-421-2690
NSN 4140-01-513-5549
NSN 7035-01-403-2841
NSN 6220-01-634-0660
NSN 5999-01-606-1651
NSN 6240-01-315-7849
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 5985-01-566-7116
NSN 5975-01-237-5769
NSN 6240-00-512-3473
NSN 6110-01-187-5807
NSN 5930-01-487-3208