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 5960-01-287-4187
NSN 6645-00-069-4381
NSN 6150-01-346-6960
NSN 5895-01-561-3427
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6650-01-545-8851
NSN 6135-01-459-1239
NSN 5998-00-267-5442
NSN 6105-01-301-9163
NSN 5920-01-040-0425
NSN 5998-00-274-3268
NSN 6610-01-252-1096