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 5895-00-823-1457
NSN 7035-00-834-2090
NSN 5990-01-314-2264
NSN 5945-01-287-0672
NSN 6105-01-542-5797
NSN 6220-01-441-5513
NSN 5990-01-386-8051
NSN 5895-00-141-0029
NSN 6135-01-205-5965
NSN 5950-00-422-8579
NSN 5925-01-070-4487
NSN 5950-01-047-8961