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 5975-00-707-8036
NSN 6145-01-310-8597
NSN 5935-00-448-3047
NSN 6610-01-593-0135
NSN 6220-01-056-6507
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 6135-01-128-5358
NSN 6105-01-340-5242
NSN 6150-01-376-4211
NSN 6145-00-819-8117
NSN 6320-01-281-6028
NSN 5905-00-597-6081