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 5975-01-387-7855
NSN 2925-00-759-5465
NSN 2925-01-134-9175
NSN 6130-00-956-3963
NSN 6620-00-930-5680
NSN 6650-01-336-2866
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 7035-01-106-3476
NSN 6145-00-691-3609
NSN 6320-01-616-0843
NSN 6610-00-632-1925
NSN 5930-01-532-4752