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 5960-00-009-8082
NSN 6240-00-968-9274
NSN 5975-01-265-6900
NSN 5975-01-374-8597
NSN 6220-01-156-4564
NSN 6685-01-037-4711
NSN 5835-01-155-8301
NSN 6150-00-228-4870
NSN 6240-00-455-7640
NSN 5985-01-314-2952
NSN 5985-00-617-7702
NSN 5935-01-148-1336