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 5975-00-081-9401
NSN 6620-01-363-8362
NSN 6645-00-051-8888
NSN 5855-01-069-1341
NSN 5930-01-554-9813
NSN 6620-01-365-1499
NSN 5915-01-504-5026
NSN 5930-01-539-8715
NSN 6685-01-285-7266
NSN 7035-01-158-8860
NSN 5996-01-336-4298
NSN 5925-01-268-8694