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 5985-01-107-9565
NSN 6620-01-114-6374
NSN 5999-01-444-4068
NSN 5950-01-605-9089
NSN 6135-01-226-4071
NSN 6645-00-163-9580
NSN 6130-00-277-7321
NSN 6650-00-597-7313
NSN 5855-01-089-2248
NSN 6105-00-803-8023
NSN 7035-00-371-7749
NSN 6645-01-442-4032