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 6645-01-128-0895
NSN 5999-01-106-2705
NSN 6130-00-773-0164
NSN 5905-01-322-0392
NSN 6110-01-456-8466
NSN 5999-00-918-4046
NSN 5915-01-240-6097
NSN 7035-01-324-1247
NSN 5920-00-873-9514
NSN 5910-01-547-0666
NSN 7035-00-541-8516
NSN 6610-01-224-7247