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 6620-01-478-4299
NSN 5835-01-380-5943
NSN 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 7035-01-433-3547
NSN 5950-01-553-7284
NSN 5910-01-579-3434
NSN 5935-01-140-8113
NSN 5895-00-879-3678
NSN 5950-00-406-8883
NSN 6105-01-116-4283
NSN 6110-00-022-2555
NSN 5985-01-114-9195