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 5920-00-484-0377
NSN 5996-01-116-1087
NSN 5910-01-148-1593
NSN 6105-01-531-0557
NSN 5920-00-995-6079
NSN 5835-01-171-5368
NSN 6610-00-626-8523
NSN 4140-01-572-3807
NSN 5915-00-250-7912
NSN 6135-00-725-5132
NSN 5915-01-546-2219
NSN 5996-01-441-7910