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 5895-00-888-4719
NSN 6685-01-463-7229
NSN 6620-01-204-1182
NSN 5999-01-516-7042
NSN 6135-00-369-2368
NSN 5999-01-335-5124
NSN 6650-01-086-1270
NSN 5905-00-522-7877
NSN 6135-01-490-0278
NSN 6110-01-131-9621
NSN 6645-01-438-3069
NSN 2925-01-027-1293