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 5960-00-204-7506
NSN 5930-00-277-4704
NSN 5998-00-908-2594
NSN 6145-00-278-0697
NSN 5999-01-474-1531
NSN 5996-00-045-4058
NSN 5960-00-220-9717
NSN 6610-01-055-4147
NSN 4140-01-262-3970
NSN 5950-01-187-6835
NSN 5990-01-533-1347
NSN 6610-00-760-9916