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 5960-00-212-6367
NSN 5990-01-529-7307
NSN 5950-00-236-3516
NSN 7035-01-265-0216
NSN 5905-01-622-3069
NSN 5975-00-273-0790
NSN 6135-01-553-7711
NSN 5855-01-049-5354
NSN 6135-01-302-4773
NSN 5999-01-400-0883
NSN 5855-01-180-5369
NSN 2925-01-079-6229