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 5965-00-815-2525
NSN 5998-01-602-9656
NSN 5950-01-265-0735
NSN 6105-01-159-8826
NSN 6135-01-383-1910
NSN 2925-01-503-6792
NSN 6685-01-482-7396
NSN 5920-00-931-4297
NSN 6650-01-181-6037
NSN 6650-00-991-5358
NSN 5950-00-773-9958
NSN 5975-00-869-9472