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 5945-00-226-8560
NSN 7035-01-411-6062
NSN 5999-01-212-9671
NSN 5990-01-144-6994
NSN 5960-00-201-5265
NSN 5960-00-386-8215
NSN 5945-01-198-7915
NSN 6685-01-383-1178
NSN 5985-01-587-9937
NSN 5915-01-145-5340
NSN 6135-01-184-0727
NSN 2925-01-600-2309