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 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 6685-01-386-7049
NSN 6145-01-358-9300
NSN 5945-00-206-0758
NSN 5975-01-466-0008
NSN 5990-00-185-5888
NSN 5905-01-065-8292
NSN 5945-01-355-1460
NSN 5935-00-655-1326
NSN 6240-00-514-3507
NSN 6240-01-331-5246
NSN 6610-00-661-1797