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 5915-00-578-1917
NSN 6220-01-085-4947
NSN 6135-01-196-2135
NSN 6220-00-790-5431
NSN 5930-01-582-9812
NSN 5985-00-931-7154
NSN 5935-00-616-2809
NSN 5895-00-408-4276
NSN 5999-00-263-4134
NSN 5915-00-155-4766
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 6610-01-564-0667