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 6620-00-060-6801
NSN 7035-00-335-7283
NSN 6320-01-317-7312
NSN 5996-01-029-2904
NSN 5999-00-089-2953
NSN 5925-00-453-5892
NSN 7035-01-506-2143
NSN 5985-01-534-9915
NSN 5855-01-384-4914
NSN 5998-00-871-3683
NSN 5905-00-170-7161
NSN 5925-00-823-2909