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 5965-00-170-8676
NSN 5990-01-293-4817
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6135-01-372-6985
NSN 6320-00-695-3891
NSN 6620-01-077-8033
NSN 5905-00-404-1134
NSN 2925-01-412-9520
NSN 6240-01-448-6870
NSN 6650-01-102-7847
NSN 5925-00-529-0441
NSN 5910-01-482-6171