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 5960-00-468-2952
NSN 5915-01-443-8662
NSN 6150-01-153-7355
NSN 5965-00-362-2158
NSN 5990-00-633-0124
NSN 7035-01-459-3520
NSN 5990-01-443-2931
NSN 6220-00-760-9199
NSN 6320-00-845-3261
NSN 6685-01-407-0436
NSN 6320-00-779-5923
NSN 5915-01-128-9239