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 5975-00-099-9312
NSN 5990-00-991-8723
NSN 7035-01-211-5636
NSN 5990-01-081-3845
NSN 6240-01-184-6831
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 6110-00-549-6662
NSN 6685-01-425-1719
NSN 6685-01-344-7273
NSN 7035-01-624-9523
NSN 6240-01-641-5315
NSN 5920-01-623-8840