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 5835-00-399-5358
NSN 5895-01-303-6892
NSN 5915-00-166-6027
NSN 5975-01-408-6643
NSN 5835-01-544-5183
NSN 5930-01-265-3080
NSN 6105-01-351-5998
NSN 6130-01-535-0077
NSN 5925-00-722-0471
NSN 6685-00-538-8656
NSN 6150-00-725-5155
NSN 5990-01-386-5561