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 5935-00-359-3419
NSN 6320-01-582-6668
NSN 6610-01-010-3159
NSN 5935-00-639-1382
NSN 5998-00-443-2074
NSN 5996-00-375-5057
NSN 5905-00-596-3283
NSN 6620-01-391-9829
NSN 6135-01-116-3385
NSN 2925-00-428-6349
NSN 6610-01-364-8295
NSN 5835-01-172-5884