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 5895-00-102-4208
NSN 6110-01-155-4048
NSN 5905-01-471-4176
NSN 5996-01-469-0852
NSN 5935-01-067-8627
NSN 6620-00-148-9613
NSN 6620-01-023-2938
NSN 5990-00-116-6590
NSN 5950-01-332-3051
NSN 5990-01-426-5215
NSN 5935-01-233-1165
NSN 5945-01-264-3179