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 5985-01-650-6882
NSN 6610-00-197-7648
NSN 6610-01-283-5629
NSN 5935-01-058-0907
NSN 6135-00-613-1068
NSN 5855-01-364-1005
NSN 7035-00-679-9027
NSN 5998-00-614-0123
NSN 4140-01-058-6603
NSN 5905-00-394-7194
NSN 5975-01-434-9054
NSN 5910-01-582-1356