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 5895-00-346-4800
NSN 5905-01-525-6089
NSN 5965-00-458-7321
NSN 6650-01-480-7754
NSN 6645-00-527-6531
NSN 5910-01-091-7292
NSN 6105-00-696-8334
NSN 5950-01-435-4405
NSN 5910-00-985-1430
NSN 6240-01-339-3751
NSN 6110-01-421-2714
NSN 5935-01-365-9807