Cognizant service: air force
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 5945-01-509-2127
NSN 6135-00-840-6451
NSN 6240-01-511-9778
NSN 5998-00-511-8531
NSN 5935-00-365-8435
NSN 6620-00-313-9237
NSN 6650-00-549-5672
NSN 6320-01-372-8671
NSN 5910-01-067-5392
NSN 6150-00-072-1500
NSN 5985-00-150-5579
NSN 5835-00-554-0399