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 5965-01-661-3023
NSN 2925-01-327-3069
NSN 6620-00-833-6786
NSN 7035-00-173-2281
NSN 6150-01-480-3211
NSN 6685-00-471-4125
NSN 6110-00-797-7559
NSN 5975-01-271-1456
NSN 6150-00-341-3860
NSN 6135-00-255-1340
NSN 6110-00-288-4179
NSN 7035-00-803-3056