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 6650-01-070-5422
NSN 5998-01-139-3234
NSN 6110-01-081-5298
NSN 6220-00-453-3179
NSN 6240-01-500-6260
NSN 6650-01-604-9073
NSN 6110-01-571-6261
NSN 5925-01-076-4458
NSN 6135-01-391-6515
NSN 5935-00-083-6522
NSN 6220-01-175-1246
NSN 5935-00-202-1103