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 5920-00-661-0840
NSN 5998-01-057-9071
NSN 5950-00-271-7340
NSN 5975-01-194-8261
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 5920-01-384-3387
NSN 6240-00-727-8573
NSN 5920-01-415-0153
NSN 6685-01-104-9591
NSN 5996-00-159-1056
NSN 2925-00-404-6461