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 5965-01-160-7037
NSN 6105-00-837-2875
NSN 5910-01-430-9144
NSN 5935-01-080-1393
NSN 5975-01-629-3085
NSN 6685-01-326-9187
NSN 5996-01-643-9616
NSN 5905-00-189-1887
NSN 4140-01-287-3903
NSN 7035-01-092-8962
NSN 6685-00-992-2259
NSN 5998-01-183-0403