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 5920-00-868-7651
NSN 5925-00-163-3953
NSN 5965-00-139-2809
NSN 5975-01-012-7444
NSN 5905-01-202-6146
NSN 6320-00-937-5625
NSN 7035-00-463-7143
NSN 6105-00-959-5468
NSN 5960-01-624-1170
NSN 5990-01-242-9653
NSN 6145-00-322-0434
NSN 2925-01-448-2880