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 5975-00-633-8532
NSN 6130-01-019-8759
NSN 6110-01-202-8009
NSN 6105-01-420-4561
NSN 6135-01-633-2066
NSN 6135-01-529-3789
NSN 5960-01-582-6167
NSN 5950-01-426-8810
NSN 5999-00-148-9072
NSN 2925-01-244-3016
NSN 6645-00-880-8045
NSN 2925-01-326-0908