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 5996-00-623-6651
NSN 6320-01-170-4068
NSN 6110-01-040-9246
NSN 6110-01-528-8508
NSN 5999-01-305-2894
NSN 5945-01-288-4753
NSN 7035-01-421-4446
NSN 5950-01-164-0327
NSN 5920-00-362-1376
NSN 6685-01-087-8305
NSN 4140-01-207-0452
NSN 6220-00-502-6380