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 5999-00-764-3666
NSN 4140-01-044-6064
NSN 5965-01-135-7910
NSN 5965-01-318-9474
NSN 6135-01-246-0308
NSN 5945-01-094-6343
NSN 2925-01-364-7926
NSN 6240-01-213-0143
NSN 5996-01-358-5847
NSN 6685-01-225-2080
NSN 6240-01-434-2361
NSN 5960-01-580-6360