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 5960-00-873-4539
NSN 5996-00-583-9498
NSN 5835-00-489-9569
NSN 5965-00-806-7593
NSN 5920-01-570-8534
NSN 6320-01-160-7757
NSN 5945-01-333-8722
NSN 6150-01-068-4672
NSN 5998-01-612-7686
NSN 5945-00-594-5168
NSN 6110-01-487-1014
NSN 5945-00-233-7426