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 6135-00-593-6831
NSN 6110-01-468-5955
NSN 5975-01-444-1480
NSN 5985-00-156-0891
NSN 6110-01-129-9571
NSN 6105-01-029-3764
NSN 6320-01-607-0347
NSN 5925-00-395-2975
NSN 6320-01-513-9166
NSN 5996-00-482-1170
NSN 6645-00-222-2785
NSN 5960-01-359-4257