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 5905-00-599-6301
NSN 5930-01-224-6488
NSN 6105-01-352-3848
NSN 6105-01-023-7146
NSN 5935-01-632-1331
NSN 6130-01-478-0430
NSN 6240-01-333-5455
NSN 4140-01-576-7966
NSN 5996-00-209-2294
NSN 5975-00-397-9533
NSN 5999-01-212-1584
NSN 4140-01-032-5746