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 5945-01-415-2842
NSN 6145-01-385-0767
NSN 5996-00-226-5364
NSN 2925-01-439-4451
NSN 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 6145-01-586-0086
NSN 6105-01-657-6102
NSN 5965-01-329-7890
NSN 5855-01-430-3246
NSN 5935-01-408-4245
NSN 6135-01-252-0315
NSN 5975-01-427-3521