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 5945-01-151-9235
NSN 5930-01-069-2348
NSN 6135-00-985-7845
NSN 6685-01-256-6443
NSN 6685-00-309-0477
NSN 5905-00-242-7723
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 5998-00-729-5614
NSN 6145-01-421-4257
NSN 5990-01-336-3976
NSN 5905-00-679-5923
NSN 5915-01-168-6570