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 5935-00-532-5894
NSN 5895-01-284-5133
NSN 5925-00-069-2126
NSN 6320-01-358-0141
NSN 5895-01-136-4366
NSN 6610-00-601-2313
NSN 4140-01-456-7156
NSN 5999-01-456-6581
NSN 6650-00-953-0127
NSN 5996-01-323-0166
NSN 5950-01-158-0014
NSN 5975-01-163-8806