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 5990-00-009-3291
NSN 5835-00-341-5441
NSN 5835-01-381-4452
NSN 5985-01-368-1194
NSN 5998-00-342-2353
NSN 6320-01-607-1491
NSN 5935-01-322-8562
NSN 6135-01-049-5980
NSN 5998-01-567-4733
NSN 5910-01-468-8996
NSN 6130-00-237-6430
NSN 5965-01-195-2168