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 5910-01-003-7842
NSN 6610-01-553-7285
NSN 5930-01-515-5202
NSN 5935-00-960-0306
NSN 6645-01-148-1683
NSN 5998-00-449-2886
NSN 5950-01-310-6113
NSN 6145-00-592-4274
NSN 6685-01-118-2807
NSN 7035-01-062-8578
NSN 2925-01-381-5307