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 5965-00-275-0491
NSN 5935-01-095-2005
NSN 6685-01-439-4248
NSN 5985-00-643-3875
NSN 6110-00-406-0221
NSN 5975-00-198-8763
NSN 6645-01-633-1852
NSN 6135-01-204-3882
NSN 4140-01-222-2140
NSN 5835-01-485-0210
NSN 5910-01-192-9090
NSN 5965-01-005-0611