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 5998-00-553-2849
NSN 5915-00-122-4849
NSN 5905-00-246-4639
NSN 5910-01-654-7649
NSN 6135-00-962-4111
NSN 7035-01-473-0517
NSN 6610-01-143-9079
NSN 5998-00-143-0485
NSN 5950-00-048-6914
NSN 5950-01-632-3060
NSN 5910-01-394-6109
NSN 6645-00-620-9294