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 5855-01-502-9239
NSN 5985-01-660-7662
NSN 7035-00-361-5975
NSN 5925-01-435-7692
NSN 5960-01-384-4603
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 5999-01-424-5551
NSN 5975-00-397-9533
NSN 5935-00-246-5280
NSN 2925-01-469-8229
NSN 6135-01-506-0759
NSN 6685-01-010-2663