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 5985-00-581-9754
NSN 6685-01-642-7394
NSN 5925-00-306-4260
NSN 7035-01-573-3851
NSN 6610-01-096-8746
NSN 6650-01-445-3393
NSN 6645-00-222-0471
NSN 5895-01-228-1497
NSN 5998-00-322-7556
NSN 5835-00-490-0530
NSN 5950-01-253-2800
NSN 5930-01-644-4113