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 7035-00-981-7216
NSN 5990-01-267-3590
NSN 6220-01-367-3658
NSN 6610-01-108-7780
NSN 5960-00-529-2704
NSN 5855-01-586-0564
NSN 5915-00-679-3093
NSN 4140-01-146-3524
NSN 5920-01-251-6706
NSN 5990-01-188-7309
NSN 6240-00-984-6257
NSN 7035-01-486-4118