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 7035-01-380-6538
NSN 6320-00-107-5291
NSN 5935-01-146-7092
NSN 5965-01-648-5763
NSN 5935-01-255-7458
NSN 6110-01-420-8996
NSN 6650-01-424-8048
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 6645-01-136-4447
NSN 5905-00-802-6730
NSN 5985-00-094-2512
NSN 5975-01-138-0188