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 6685-00-463-1651
NSN 7035-00-043-1325
NSN 5996-01-391-9585
NSN 5999-01-640-7617
NSN 4140-01-364-9797
NSN 6645-01-485-9241
NSN 5975-01-488-6198
NSN 5905-01-070-9453
NSN 5935-01-587-9747
NSN 6685-01-511-6544
NSN 5999-00-644-9767
NSN 5950-01-421-4138