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 5950-00-277-4232
NSN 5996-01-571-9384
NSN 7035-01-138-5781
NSN 5930-00-356-5003
NSN 6105-01-590-3278
NSN 5945-01-122-6610
NSN 5935-01-511-8677
NSN 5835-00-936-8753
NSN 6685-01-109-7208
NSN 6650-00-105-8063
NSN 5895-00-061-7192
NSN 5998-01-447-2952