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 5965-00-267-4173
NSN 6645-00-300-6459
NSN 5905-00-845-7317
NSN 6610-00-456-0485
NSN 5990-00-226-7894
NSN 5925-01-248-4510
NSN 6150-00-539-6639
NSN 6135-01-200-5144
NSN 5960-01-530-6302
NSN 6645-00-574-9712
NSN 6610-01-206-5278
NSN 5990-01-368-2604