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 5996-00-844-6227
NSN 6320-00-218-6105
NSN 5975-01-401-5355
NSN 7035-01-555-8793
NSN 5835-00-346-4735
NSN 6135-00-801-3493
NSN 5990-01-605-4769
NSN 6610-01-400-3880
NSN 5975-01-157-6481
NSN 7035-00-870-0290
NSN 6105-00-257-2505
NSN 6610-01-464-7883