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 6135-00-269-5843
NSN 5950-00-269-4805
NSN 6240-00-266-9940
NSN 5950-01-210-6408
NSN 7035-01-649-0424
NSN 5945-01-061-2822
NSN 6650-01-512-1930
NSN 5985-01-293-0605
NSN 5985-01-440-9976
NSN 6320-01-516-3836
NSN 5985-01-644-8259
NSN 5950-01-403-2852