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 5935-01-516-0025
NSN 5965-01-394-1542
NSN 6105-01-370-5779
NSN 6130-01-512-3849
NSN 6135-01-031-8078
NSN 6620-00-663-8962
NSN 5895-01-461-6174
NSN 5930-00-833-7090
NSN 5895-01-171-4049
NSN 5965-01-271-0808
NSN 5965-00-735-9315
NSN 6650-01-450-0790