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 5975-00-436-0620
NSN 5915-01-289-5687
NSN 5996-00-382-9296
NSN 5975-00-300-5664
NSN 5996-00-456-7319
NSN 6650-01-196-4667
NSN 5999-01-606-6350
NSN 6220-01-251-2435
NSN 6645-00-401-5563
NSN 6220-00-723-0424
NSN 5998-01-542-0527
NSN 7035-01-443-3052