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 5950-01-237-3406
NSN 6135-01-070-3865
NSN 5998-00-285-8613
NSN 5925-01-205-1773
NSN 5855-01-068-3683
NSN 6685-01-138-0447
NSN 7035-00-445-9657
NSN 5950-01-355-8861
NSN 6220-01-091-0334
NSN 5985-00-419-8705
NSN 6135-01-412-5836
NSN 5985-01-424-5190