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 5945-00-553-9963
NSN 6130-00-677-9267
NSN 6110-01-294-6483
NSN 2925-01-656-0392
NSN 5930-00-564-2770
NSN 6650-00-264-0664
NSN 6130-01-469-5991
NSN 5910-00-855-8354
NSN 6685-01-384-6095
NSN 5960-00-452-6043
NSN 6320-00-004-9158
NSN 5985-01-337-3197