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 5975-01-207-2309
NSN 6320-01-036-2598
NSN 6320-00-937-5625
NSN 5945-01-268-1827
NSN 5960-01-397-1443
NSN 6220-01-268-6629
NSN 6150-01-521-3585
NSN 5998-00-005-2416
NSN 5960-01-444-2205
NSN 5925-01-313-8396
NSN 5935-01-648-2317
NSN 5990-00-316-8872