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 5998-00-923-2361
NSN 7035-01-486-4118
NSN 4140-01-281-0222
NSN 6150-01-303-5852
NSN 6240-00-275-1950
NSN 6685-01-626-9702
NSN 5935-01-012-9822
NSN 5895-00-596-8678
NSN 5910-00-371-9915
NSN 7035-00-574-4223
NSN 2925-01-375-9487
NSN 4140-01-037-8994