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 5905-00-088-3604
NSN 7035-00-079-7189
NSN 6105-00-156-9084
NSN 5935-00-569-7749
NSN 5999-01-520-8654
NSN 5985-01-077-3337
NSN 5835-01-187-8986
NSN 5965-00-348-4165
NSN 6620-00-928-6053
NSN 5999-00-215-0182
NSN 5999-01-282-9965
NSN 6150-01-029-5979