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 2925-00-795-4064
NSN 5930-01-072-7576
NSN 5945-00-144-8073
NSN 6240-00-498-7669
NSN 5930-01-525-9006
NSN 5950-00-035-8791
NSN 6145-01-649-9619
NSN 5996-01-506-3645
NSN 5950-01-413-0793
NSN 6220-00-959-5970
NSN 5960-00-271-1396
NSN 5855-01-307-6638