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 5996-00-278-5193
NSN 5998-01-535-7135
NSN 6240-01-128-2173
NSN 5925-00-203-1278
NSN 6620-00-510-5162
NSN 5998-01-457-7862
NSN 7035-01-557-2779
NSN 5895-01-517-3643
NSN 5999-00-958-0563
NSN 5950-01-137-2479
NSN 5915-00-310-3156
NSN 6220-01-070-7935