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 7035-00-553-6951
NSN 5945-00-243-4148
NSN 5990-00-707-0731
NSN 5985-00-349-9327
NSN 5905-01-421-2481
NSN 5915-01-309-9717
NSN 6135-01-536-8333
NSN 5985-01-086-7662
NSN 5855-01-562-7407
NSN 5998-01-575-0804
NSN 5930-01-286-2233
NSN 5930-01-043-9307