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 5960-00-474-8254
NSN 5910-00-488-5083
NSN 5998-01-054-3344
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 6135-00-243-8330
NSN 5960-01-605-9921
NSN 5835-01-355-0308
NSN 2925-01-314-3823
NSN 6145-01-657-9606
NSN 5945-00-788-1415
NSN 5895-00-989-3586
NSN 5999-00-222-5993