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 5975-01-055-8957
NSN 5935-01-015-8295
NSN 5910-00-557-0923
NSN 5960-01-278-9394
NSN 5835-01-027-3931
NSN 5910-01-520-4799
NSN 6135-01-294-2131
NSN 6650-01-264-4415
NSN 6110-01-629-8539
NSN 6135-00-405-1989
NSN 6240-01-556-7096
NSN 6105-00-486-3875