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 5975-00-811-3444
NSN 5960-01-196-9203
NSN 6610-01-250-7477
NSN 5985-00-251-0246
NSN 5855-01-278-8922
NSN 5950-01-498-8260
NSN 5990-01-189-3201
NSN 6240-00-459-5367
NSN 6610-01-211-4210
NSN 5990-00-900-4459
NSN 6610-01-545-5648
NSN 5925-00-423-2791