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 5985-00-424-5788
NSN 6135-00-874-6566
NSN 5990-01-472-2447
NSN 5990-01-574-2522
NSN 5999-01-485-3385
NSN 6150-01-494-2156
NSN 5930-01-200-1503
NSN 5945-00-644-7901
NSN 6145-01-516-2386
NSN 2925-01-471-3365
NSN 4140-00-577-3512
NSN 5925-01-121-0401