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 5990-01-414-7618
NSN 5835-00-770-2843
NSN 6650-01-464-8885
NSN 6685-01-350-2825
NSN 5965-01-382-9081
NSN 4140-01-301-8729
NSN 5960-00-265-0726
NSN 5990-01-423-8189
NSN 6145-00-738-5601
NSN 5895-01-194-4203
NSN 6320-01-307-6505
NSN 5930-00-998-3663