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 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 5965-01-386-7134
NSN 6145-01-605-0948
NSN 6145-01-451-4014
NSN 5975-01-419-1218
NSN 5999-00-440-0285
NSN 7035-01-383-6549
NSN 5905-00-131-7504
NSN 6150-01-289-2944
NSN 6645-01-201-5802
NSN 5985-01-526-8778
NSN 5925-00-511-9693