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 5975-01-540-9128
NSN 5996-01-595-2095
NSN 6105-01-443-1429
NSN 7035-01-537-0408
NSN 6240-01-474-6914
NSN 5855-01-364-9810
NSN 2925-00-932-6262
NSN 5999-01-481-9090
NSN 5925-01-536-0165
NSN 4140-01-337-3966
NSN 5985-01-424-7414
NSN 5925-01-204-9441