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 6685-00-897-5821
NSN 5950-01-305-6590
NSN 7035-00-782-7046
NSN 5915-01-431-2321
NSN 5999-01-148-6140
NSN 6645-00-498-6869
NSN 5990-01-424-2954
NSN 6130-01-392-0596
NSN 5920-00-306-4872
NSN 5835-01-614-1900
NSN 6650-01-296-0883
NSN 6645-00-930-3566