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 6685-00-245-4550
NSN 5975-01-068-3549
NSN 2925-01-591-4030
NSN 5985-01-082-3265
NSN 6150-01-334-1394
NSN 6150-01-465-6328
NSN 6650-01-439-4639
NSN 5975-00-618-8194
NSN 5925-00-304-3315
NSN 6105-01-650-8083
NSN 5975-01-127-5988
NSN 5945-00-398-1072