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 5985-00-310-3294
NSN 5855-01-171-2818
NSN 5910-00-833-9704
NSN 5990-01-527-7640
NSN 5960-00-402-3609
NSN 5998-01-360-6038
NSN 5835-01-185-1102
NSN 6220-01-242-9901
NSN 5945-00-246-7796
NSN 5996-01-659-3689
NSN 6610-01-556-2353
NSN 6135-01-455-9646