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 5965-00-568-5802
NSN 7035-01-432-4605
NSN 6150-01-360-1588
NSN 6105-01-411-5380
NSN 5930-00-326-9052
NSN 5990-01-499-6930
NSN 5965-00-199-4456
NSN 5945-00-959-0477
NSN 5835-00-922-1263
NSN 6110-01-312-2936
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 6650-01-149-6621