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 5915-01-412-5008
NSN 6135-00-255-1340
NSN 6645-01-440-5160
NSN 6105-01-364-1727
NSN 6220-01-367-5537
NSN 5835-00-571-8866
NSN 5998-00-715-4230
NSN 6130-01-332-8966
NSN 6150-00-192-2734
NSN 5996-01-512-6170
NSN 5945-00-860-9205
NSN 6150-00-798-1131