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 7035-00-902-8995
NSN 5985-01-235-7068
NSN 7035-01-319-1379
NSN 6610-00-845-1070
NSN 6220-01-507-8210
NSN 5996-01-481-7694
NSN 5950-00-898-5429
NSN 6650-01-096-6803
NSN 5910-00-113-2103
NSN 5910-00-172-8120
NSN 5945-00-578-3621
NSN 5965-00-222-7394