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 7035-00-727-4068
NSN 6135-01-437-6409
NSN 5975-01-243-2894
NSN 6105-01-274-5951
NSN 5950-00-228-9881
NSN 5915-01-212-2988
NSN 5835-00-624-1548
NSN 6240-01-073-6471
NSN 5895-00-501-1521
NSN 5905-00-404-8838
NSN 5895-01-116-9895
NSN 5935-01-391-7821