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 5960-00-236-3980
NSN 5920-00-150-1148
NSN 5920-00-003-5845
NSN 5975-01-459-7072
NSN 5985-00-849-6184
NSN 5975-01-584-3151
NSN 6685-00-596-8765
NSN 5935-01-344-1598
NSN 5910-01-420-5794
NSN 6685-01-362-1943
NSN 5985-01-257-7362
NSN 5975-01-641-6346