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 5998-00-409-9367
NSN 6135-01-660-2840
NSN 5855-01-369-5037
NSN 5895-01-204-9039
NSN 5985-01-534-0997
NSN 5920-01-146-4503
NSN 6145-00-959-1481
NSN 5945-01-333-1058
NSN 6135-00-932-3136
NSN 5935-01-634-0668
NSN 6685-01-178-4717
NSN 6620-00-774-3638