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 5975-00-034-7786
NSN 5835-01-527-2629
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 6685-01-098-6645
NSN 5835-01-098-9702
NSN 6110-01-585-3220
NSN 5915-01-429-9287
NSN 7035-01-024-9511
NSN 5945-01-302-1074
NSN 6320-01-441-2438
NSN 6610-01-031-1113
NSN 5945-01-523-7420