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 5996-00-349-1870
NSN 7035-00-445-9657
NSN 5960-01-129-7447
NSN 6130-01-302-6769
NSN 6645-01-182-2102
NSN 7035-01-398-3494
NSN 5985-01-517-5486
NSN 5905-01-502-4561
NSN 6145-01-041-3057
NSN 5905-01-421-8013
NSN 6130-00-249-2905
NSN 6240-01-383-7554