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 5905-00-493-0495
NSN 5998-00-244-8629
NSN 6645-00-163-4624
NSN 5920-00-063-0532
NSN 6110-01-629-6387
NSN 6620-01-361-8685
NSN 5835-00-228-8391
NSN 5975-01-505-4677
NSN 5998-00-603-9400
NSN 5920-01-634-0250
NSN 6135-00-152-8729
NSN 5960-01-235-2586